Many-body theory of false vacuum decay in quantum spin chains

arXiv:2508.13780 · cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.str-el, hep-lat, hep-th, quant-ph · Submitted 2025-08-19 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.str-el, hep-lat, hep-th, quant-ph

Submitted: 2025-08-19

Updated: 2026-09-19

Terminology

• Coherent Bubble Theory — 5× in this paper
• Domain Walls — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metastability — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Theory of metastable states in many-body quantum systems
• Probing false vacuum decay on a cold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator
• Observation of string-breaking dynamics in a quantum simulator
• Monte Carlo matrix-product-state approach to the false vacuum decay in the monitored quantum Ising chain
• Detecting a long lived false vacuum with quantum quenches

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