{"id":181106,"date":"2024-01-22T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-research-sheds-light-on-a-phenomenon-known-as-false-vacuum-decay"},"modified":"2024-01-22T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:25:12","slug":"new-research-sheds-light-on-a-phenomenon-known-as-false-vacuum-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-research-sheds-light-on-a-phenomenon-known-as-false-vacuum-decay","title":{"rendered":"New research sheds light on a phenomenon known as \u2018false vacuum decay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-sheds-light-on-a-phenomenon-known-as-false-vacuum-decay3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experiment conducted in Italy, with theory support from Newcastle University, has produced the first experimental evidence of vacuum decay.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+field+theory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum field theory<\/a>, when a not-so-stable state transforms into the true stable state, it\u2019s called \u201cfalse <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/vacuum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vacuum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/decay\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">decay<\/a>.\u201d This happens through the creation of small localized bubbles. While existing theoretical work can predict how often this bubble formation occurs, there hasn\u2019t been much experimental evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Now, an international research team involving Newcastle University scientists has for the first observed these bubbles forming in carefully controlled atomic systems. Published in the journal <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41567-023-02345-4\">the findings<\/a> offer experimental evidence of bubble formation through false vacuum decay in a quantum system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experiment conducted in Italy, with theory support from Newcastle University, has produced the first experimental evidence of vacuum decay. In quantum field theory, when a not-so-stable state transforms into the true stable state, it\u2019s called \u201cfalse vacuum decay.\u201d This happens through the creation of small localized bubbles. While existing theoretical work can predict how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}