False vacuum bubble nucleation due to a nonminimally coupled scalar field

2006/04/30 by Wonwoo Lee, Bum-Hoon Lee, Chul H. Lee +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.74.123520

published as Phys.Rev.D74:123520,2006 · 23 pages, 12 figures, References added, minor correction

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Abstract

We study the possibility of forming the false vacuum bubble nucleated within the true vacuum background via the true-to-false vacuum phase transition in curved spacetime. We consider a semiclassical Euclidean bubble in the Einstein theory of gravity with a nonminimally coupled scalar field. In this paper we present the numerical computations as well as the approximate analytical computations. We mention the evolution of the false vacuum bubble after nucleation.

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