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A Class of Nonperturbative Configurations in Abelian-Higgs Models: Complexity from Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
Marcelo Gleiser, Joel Thorarinson
We present a numerical investigation of the dynamics of symmetry breaking in both Abelian and non-Abelian Higgs models in three spatial dimensions. We find a class of t…
Punctuated Chirality
Marcelo Gleiser, Joel Thorarinson, Sara Imari Walker
Most biomolecules occur in mirror, or chiral, images of each other. However, life is homochiral: proteins contain almost exclusively levorotatory (L) amino acids, while only dextro…
Dynamical Emergence of Complex Structures in Field Theories
Joel Thorarinson, Marcelo Gleiser
Nonlinear field theories can be used to study both standard physics questions, or to study questions such as the emergence of order and complexity. These theories are generally der…
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…
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…
Prebiotic Homochirality as a Critical Phenomenon
Marcelo Gleiser, Joel Thorarinson
The development of prebiotic homochirality on early-Earth or another planetary platform may be viewed as a critical phenomenon. It is shown, in the context of spatio-temporal polym…