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hep-th2007★ 32 cited
Bubbling the False Vacuum Away
Marcelo Gleiser, Barrett Rogers, Joel Thorarinson
We investigate the role of nonperturbative, bubble-like inhomogeneities on the decay rate of false-vacuum states in two and three-dimensional scalar field theories. The inhomogenei…
hep-th2007★ 54 cited
A Phase Transition in U(1) Configuration Space: Oscillons as Remnants of Vortex-Antivortex Annihilation
Marcelo Gleiser, Joel Thorarinson
We show that the low-momentum scattering of vortex-antivortex pairs can lead to very long-lived oscillon states in 2d Abelian Higgs models. The emergence of oscillons is controlled…