RN-AdS Nontopoligical Solitons in Broken Einstein-Maxwell-Higgs Theory

Abstract

Results are presented from numerical simulations of the Einstein-Maxwell-Higgs equations with a broken U(1) symmetry. Coherent nontopological soliton solutions are shown to exist that separate an Anti-de Sitter (AdS) true vacuum interior from a Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) false vacuum exterior. The stability of these bubble solutions is tested by perturbing the charge of the coherent solution and evolving the time-dependent equations of motion. In the weak gravitational limit, the short-term stability depends on the sign of $(\omega /Q){\partial }_{\omega }Q$, similar to q-balls. The long-term end state of the perturbed solutions demonstrates a rich structure and is visualized using "phase diagrams." Regions of both stability and instability are shown to exist for ${\kappa }_g\lesssim 0.015$, while solutions with ${\kappa }_g\gtrsim 0.015$ were observed to be entirely unstable. Threshold solutions are shown to demonstrate time-scaling laws, and the space separating true and false vacuum end states is shown to be fractal in nature, similar to oscillons. Coherent states with superextremal charge-to-mass ratios are shown to exist and observed to collapse or expand, depending on the sign of the charge perturbation. Expanding superextremal bubbles induce a phase transition to the true AdS vacuum, while collapsing superextremal bubbles can form nonsingular strongly gravitating solutions with superextremal RN exteriors.

arXiv comment20 pages, 27 figures, 2 tables

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