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Classical Transitions in Superfluid Helium 3
I-Sheng Yang, S. -H. Henry Tye, Benjamin Shlaer
We argue that classical transitions can be the key to explaining the long standing puzzle of the fast A-B phase transition observed in superfluid Helium 3 while standard theory exp…
Minkowski vacua can be metastable
Jaume Garriga, Benjamin Shlaer, Alexander Vilenkin
We investigate the recent suggestion that a Minkowski vacuum is either absolutely stable, or it has a divergent decay rate and thus fails to have a locally Minkowski description. T…
Bubbles from Nothing
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Handhika S. Ramadhan, Benjamin Shlaer
Within the framework of flux compactifications, we construct an instanton describing the quantum creation of an open universe from nothing. The solution has many features in common…
Large parallel cosmic string simulations: New results on loop production
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, Benjamin Shlaer
Using a new parallel computing technique, we have run the largest cosmic string simulations ever performed. Our results confirm the existence of a long transient period where a non…