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most citedPhaseTracer2: from the effective potential to gravitational waves

15 citations · 15 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

hep-ph2026

PTagent: An LLM-assisted tool for finite-temperature model construction in cosmological phase transitions

Lei Wu, Yang Xiao, Jin Min Yang +1

Cosmological phase-transition calculations require well-defined finite-temperature numerical models, whose construction involves assembling model information under consistent theor…

hep-th2026

A No-Go Theorem for Nonspherical Bounces with a Single Negative Mode

Guangshang Chen, Jianpeng Dai, Yang Xiao

False vacuum decay is conventionally described by a spherically symmetric bounce with a single negative fluctuation mode. This raises a fundamental question: can the single negativ…

hep-ph2026

Subcritical bubble prehistory in weak first-order phase transition

Guangshang Chen, Yang Xiao, Jin Min Yang +1

Standard calculations of cosmological first-order phase transitions usually assume critical bubbles to nucleate on a homogeneous symmetric vacuum background. However, this assumpti…

hep-ph2026

Gravitational Wave Signature of Aspherical Bubbles Driven by Thermal Fluctuation

Ligong Bian, Guangshang Chen, Song Li +4

Cosmological first-order phase transitions are a well-motivated source of stochastic gravitational waves (GWs), but most predictions are made based on the highly idealized model of…

hep-ph2025

Worth the Effort? An Examination on the Effect of Higher Diligence Calculations of the Sound Shell Model

Fazlollah Hajkarim, Graham White, Yang Xiao

The gravitational wave spectrum arising from using the full velocity profile is well known to differ qualitatively from analytic fits to a broken power law. Former studies have sho…

hep-ph2025

Enhancing Phase Transition Calculations with Fitting and Neural Network

Ligong Bian, Hongxin Wang, Yang Xiao +3

The computation of bounce action in a phase transition involves solving partial differential equations, inherently introducing non-negligible numerical uncertainty. Deriving charac…

hep-ph2025

Machine Learning Left-Right Breaking from Gravitational Waves

William Searle, Csaba Balázs, Yang Xiao +1

First-order phase transitions in the early universe can generate stochastic gravitational waves (GWs), offering a unique probe of high-scale particle physics. The Left-Right Symmet…

hep-ph2025

The Bubble Wall Velocity in Local Thermal Equilibrium and Energy Budget with Full Effective Potential

Zongguo Si, Hongxin Wang, Lei Wang +2

We develop a framework based on the full one-loop finite-temperature effective potential model, within which the bubble wall velocity is calculated using the local thermal equilibr…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 15 cited

PhaseTracer2: from the effective potential to gravitational waves

Peter Athron, Csaba Balazs, Andrew Fowlie +4

In recent years, the prospect of detecting gravitational waves sourced from a strongly first-order cosmological phase transition has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers o…

hep-ph2023

Estimating the Uncertainty of Cosmological First Order Phase Transitions with Numerical Simulations of Bubble Nucleation

Huai-Ke Guo, Song Li, Yang Xiao +2

In order to study the validity of analytical formulas used in the calculation of characteristic physical quantities related to vacuum bubbles, we conduct several numerical simulati…