2021/01/01 by Valerio De Luca, V. De Luca, Gabriele Franciolini +3
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Applied mathematics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Bubble #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Critical phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Economics #First order #Mathematics #Mechanics #Order (exchange) #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Simple (philosophy) #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.104.123539
6 pages, 1 figure. v2: matching published version
arxiv created 2021/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2021/12/17 · arxiv updated 2022/01/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Making use of both the stochastic approach to the tunneling phenomenon and the threshold statistics, we offer a simple argument to show that critical bubbles may be correlated in first-order phase transitions and biased compared to the underlying scalar field spatial distribution. This happens though only if the typical energy scale of the phase transition is sufficiently high. We briefly discuss possible implications of this result, e.g., the formation of primordial black holes through bubble collisions.