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Excited Abelian-Higgs vortices: decay rate and radiation emission
A. Alonso-Izquierdo, J. J. Blanco-Pillado, D. Miguélez-Caballero +2
The evolution of 1-vortices when their massive bound mode is excited is investigated in detail (both analytically and numerically) in the Abelian-Higgs model for different ranges o…
Bubbles of Nothing: The Tunneling Potential Approach
J. J. Blanco-Pillado, J. R. Espinosa, J. Huertas +1
Bubbles of nothing (BoNs) describe the decay of spacetimes with compact dimensions and are thus of fundamental importance for many higher dimensional theories proposed beyond the S…
Flyover vacuum decay
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Heling Deng, Alexander Vilenkin
We use analytic estimates and numerical simulations to explore the stochastic approach to vacuum decay. According to this approach, the time derivative of a scalar field, which is…
A vorton gun
Ken D. Olum, J. J. Blanco-Pillado, Xavier Siemens
In about half of all near-cusp events in superconducting cosmic strings with chiral currents (and probably with general currents as well), the string intersects itself near the cus…
Dynamics of superconducting strings with chiral currents
J. J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, Alexander Vilenkin
We rederive, using an elementary formalism, the general solution to the equations of motion for a superconducting string with a chiral (null) neutral current, earlier obtained by C…
Radiation from cosmic string standing waves
Ken D. Olum, J. J. Blanco-Pillado
We have simulated large-amplitude standing waves on an Abelian-Higgs cosmic string in classical lattice field theory. The radiation rate falls exponentially with wavelength, as one…