{"id":181348,"date":"2024-01-25T02:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-quantum-mysteries-scientists-produce-first-experimental-evidence-of-vacuum-decay"},"modified":"2024-01-25T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T08:25:09","slug":"unlocking-quantum-mysteries-scientists-produce-first-experimental-evidence-of-vacuum-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-quantum-mysteries-scientists-produce-first-experimental-evidence-of-vacuum-decay","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Quantum Mysteries: Scientists Produce First Experimental Evidence of Vacuum Decay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-quantum-mysteries-scientists-produce-first-experimental-evidence-of-vacuum-decay2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experiment carried out in Italy, backed by theoretical support from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/newcastle-university\/\">Newcastle University<\/a>, has produced the first experimental evidence of vacuum decay.<\/p>\n<p>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 often this bubble formation occurs, there hasn\u2019t been much experimental evidence. 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 <em> <i>Nature Physics<\/i><\/em>, the findings offer experimental evidence of bubble formation through false vacuum decay in a quantum system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experiment carried out in Italy, backed by theoretical 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181348","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}