Speaker
Ian Moss
(Newcastle University)
Description
This is the second of three talks exploring the feasibility building a quantum simulator for testing vacuum decay.
I will describe some of the basic features that a BEC system would need in order to simulate cosmological vacuum decays in the laboratory. These include Klein-Gordon like behaviour and a ground state structure with metastable phases. Up to now, the proposals have suffered from a parametric growth of instabilities. I will indicate a way forward, and outline how the theory of bubble nucleation can be adapted to BEC's at zero and slightly non-zero temperature.
Primary authors
Ian Moss
(Newcastle University)
Dr
Florent Michel
(Durham University)
Ruth Gregory
(Durham University)