2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2024
Detecting a long lived false vacuum with quantum quenches
Gianluca Lagnese, Federica Maria Surace, Sid Morampudi +1
Distinguishing whether a system supports alternate low-energy (locally stable) states -- stable (true vacuum) versus metastable (false vacuum) -- by direct observation can be diffi…
cond-mat.quant-gas2024
Probing false vacuum decay on a cold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator
Zi-Hang Zhu, Ying Liu, Gianluca Lagnese +9
In the context of quantum electrodynamics, the decay of false vacuum leads to the production of electron-positron pair, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger effect. In practical exp…