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Correspondence between Thermal and Quantum Vacuum Transitions around Horizons
Recently, there are comparable revised interests in bubble nucleation seeded
by black holes. However, it is debated in the literature that whether one shall
interpret a static bounce solution in the Euclidean Schwarzschild spacetime
(with periodic Euclidean Schwarzschild time) as describing a false vacuum decay
at zero temperature or at finite temperature. In this paper, we show a
correspondence that the static bounce solution describes either a thermal
transition of vacuum in the static region outside of a Schwarzschild black hole
or a quantum transition in a maximally extended Kruskal-Szekeres spacetime,
corresponding to the viewpoint of the external static observers or the freely
falling observers, respectively. The Matsubara modes in the thermal
interpretation can be mapped to the circular harmonic modes from an
symmetry in the tunneling interpretation. The complementary tunneling
interpretation must be given in the Kruskal-Szekeres spacetime because of the
so-called thermofield dynamics. This correspondence is general for bubble
nucleation around horizons. We propose a new paradox related to black holes as
a consequence of this correspondence.Comment: 26 pages; v2: typos corrected; v3: references added, discussion on
AdS black holes added, to match the published version; v4(v5): Ref [37]
updated, footnote [10] added v6: two typos correcte
Logarithmic divergent friction on ultrarelativistic bubble walls
We calculate the friction experienced by ultrarelativistic bubble walls
resulting from the light-to-heavy transition process, with
finite-wall-width effects fully taken into account. In this process, the light
particle is excited from the order-parameter scalar field, while the two heavy
particles are excitations of a dark matter scalar field. Unlike earlier
estimates suggesting a friction scaling as , where
represents the Lorentz factor of the wall velocity, our more precise numerical
analysis reveals a logarithmic dependence of the friction on . We
offer a numerical fit to capture this frictional pressure accurately. Our
analysis verifies that the friction stemming from the
light-to-heavy transition is typically much smaller than the friction from the
transmission of the dark matter particles.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figure
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