2 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
The Probability of Vacuum Metastability and Artificial Vacuum Decay: Expert Survey Results
Jordan Stone, Youssef Saleh, Darryl Wright +1
Vacuum decay posits that the universe's apparent vacuum is metastable and could transition to a lower-energy state. According to current physics models, if such a transition occurr…
quant-ph2025
Wavefunction branches demand a definition!
C. Jess Riedel
Under unitary evolution, a typical macroscopic quantum system is thought to develop wavefunction branches: a time-dependent decomposition into orthogonal components that (1) form a…