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Title: Collapse of vacuum bubbles in a vacuum

Abstract

We revisit the dynamics of a false vacuum bubble in a background de Sitter spacetime. We find that there exists a large parameter space that allows the bubble to collapse into a black hole or to form a wormhole. This may have interesting implications for the creation of a baby universe in the laboratory, the string landscape where the bubble nucleation takes place among a plenitude of metastable vacua, and the inflationary physics.

Authors:
;  [1]
  1. Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529 (China)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
21504962
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 83; Journal Issue: 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.043512; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Journal ID: ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; BLACK HOLES; DE SITTER SPACE; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; NUCLEATION; SPACE-TIME; UNIVERSE; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SPACE

Citation Formats

Ng, Kin-Wang, Wang, Shang-Yung, and Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 25137. Collapse of vacuum bubbles in a vacuum. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.043512.
Ng, Kin-Wang, Wang, Shang-Yung, & Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 25137. Collapse of vacuum bubbles in a vacuum. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.043512
Ng, Kin-Wang, Wang, Shang-Yung, and Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 25137. 2011. "Collapse of vacuum bubbles in a vacuum". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.043512.
@article{osti_21504962,
title = {Collapse of vacuum bubbles in a vacuum},
author = {Ng, Kin-Wang and Wang, Shang-Yung and Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 25137},
abstractNote = {We revisit the dynamics of a false vacuum bubble in a background de Sitter spacetime. We find that there exists a large parameter space that allows the bubble to collapse into a black hole or to form a wormhole. This may have interesting implications for the creation of a baby universe in the laboratory, the string landscape where the bubble nucleation takes place among a plenitude of metastable vacua, and the inflationary physics.},
doi = {10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.043512},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21504962}, journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles Fields},
issn = {0556-2821},
number = 4,
volume = 83,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2011},
month = {Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2011}
}