Journal article : Letter
Symmetry restoration and vacuum decay from accretion around black holes
- Abstract:
- Vacuum decay and symmetry breaking play an important role in the fundamental structure of the matter and the evolution of the Universe. In this work we study how the purely classical effect of accretion of fundamental fields onto black holes can lead to shells of symmetry restoration in the midst of a symmetry broken phase. We also show how it can catalyze vacuum decay, forming a bubble that expands asymptotically at the speed of light. These effects offer an alternative, purely classical mechanism to quantum tunneling for seeding phase transitions in the Universe.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1103/physrevd.111.l041501
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+ Science and Technology Facilities Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/057g20z61
- Grant:
- ST/W000903/1
- ST/K000373/1
+ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0439y7842
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Journal:
- Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology) More from this journal
- Volume:
- 111
- Issue:
- 4
- Article number:
- L041501
- Publication date:
- 2025-02-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2025-01-02
- DOI:
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2470-0029
- ISSN:
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2470-0010
- Language:
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English
- Subtype:
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Letter
- Pubs id:
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2084788
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pubs:2084788
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2025-08-11
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- Marsden et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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- Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
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