The Vacuum Bubble Nucleation

Journal Article · Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3192302· OSTI ID:21344286

Lee, Bum-Hoon ^[1]; Lee, Wonwoo ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics and Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University Seoul 121-742 (Korea, Republic of)
2. Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742 (Korea, Republic of)

We study the nucleation of a vacuum bubble via the vacuum-to-vacuum tunneling transition in curved spacetime. We consider Coleman-de Luccia's semiclassical approximation at zero temperature in pure Einstein theory of gravity and the theory with nonminimal coupling. We discuss the dynamics of a nucleated vacuum bubble.

• OSTI ID: 21344286
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1150, Issue 1; Conference: 3. international meeting on frontiers in physics, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 12-16 Jan 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3192302; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GRAVITATION
NUCLEATION
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
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