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Magnetic monopoles produced by first-order phase transition
Yuefeng Di, Ligong Bian, Rong-Gen Cai
We present the first 3D lattice simulations of magnetic monopole production from a first-order phase transition, using the Press-Ryden-Spergel method, capturing the subsequent anni…
Nonequilibrium framework for first-order phase transitions
Jie Liu, Ligong Bian
The first-order phase transition is central to electroweak baryogenesis and gravitational wave generation, yet thermal equilibrium effective potential analyses cannot describe the…
Vacuum Decay Rate in D-dimensional Electroweak theories
Jingwei Wang, Ligong Bian
We present a systematic framework for computing the functional determinant contribution to vacuum decay rates in D-dimensional electroweak theories. It consistently incorporates qu…
Towards Accurate Gravitational Wave Predictions: Gauge-Invariant Nucleation in the Electroweak Phase Transition
Jie Liu, Renhui Qin, Ligong Bian
The vacuum decay in the early Universe should be gauge-invariant. In this work, we study the gauge dependence of the vacuum decay occurring through a first-order phase transition a…