Globally Charged Vacuum Decay

arXiv:2606.21653 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-th · Submitted 2026-06-19 · Read on arXiv

Giulio Barni, Jose R. Espinosa

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-06-19

Comments: 41 pages, 12 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Walls — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dynamical regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• First-Order Transition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Metastability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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• Megahertz Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Mergers
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• The Battle of the Bulge: Decay of the Thin, False Cosmic String
• QCD Axion Strings or Seeds?
• String-induced vacuum decay and its gravitational wave signatures
• On quantum tunnelling in the presence of Noether charges
• Domain walls seeding the electroweak phase transition
• Electroweak Phase Transition with a Double Well Done Doubly Well
• Heterogeneous Cosmological Phase Transitions: Seeded by Domain Walls and Junctions
• Gravitational waves from defect-driven phase transitions: domain walls
• A direct approach to quantum tunneling
• Precision decay rate calculations in quantum field theory
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• Toward quantum tunneling from excited states: Recovering imaginary-time instantons from a real-time analysis
• The Tunneling Potential Approach to Q-Balls
• A Fresh Look at the Calculation of Tunneling Actions
• The Axion Quark Nugget Dark Matter Model: Size Distribution and Survival Pattern

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