Bubble wall velocity from holography

Yago Bea, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Thanasis Giannakopoulos, David Mateos, Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia, Miguel Zilhão

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Cosmological phase transitions proceed via the nucleation of bubbles that subsequently expand and collide. The resulting gravitational wave spectrum depends crucially on the bubble wall velocity. We use holography to compute the wall velocity from first principles in a strongly coupled, non-Abelian, four-dimensional gauge theory. The wall velocity is determined dynamically in terms of the nucleation temperature. We verify that ideal hydrodynamics provides a good description of the system everywhere except near the wall.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberL121903
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume104
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Bubble wall velocity from holography'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this