Fate of the False Vacuum: A finite temperature stochastic model for the simulated early universe in BEC

King Lun

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Institute of Physics PAS and Centre for Quantum Technology Theory, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

November 5, 2021 11:00 AM


We present a theoretical model to numerically evaluate the dynamics of a coupled Bose field at finite temperature. This model is used to study a proposed table-top experiment using a two-species Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) to simulate the inflationary universe. By applying the Bogoliubov method and the truncated Wigner method to include both the thermal fluctuations and the quantum fluctuations, we present a feasibility study and possible observations of the experiment at finite temperature condition.