Fate of false vacua in holographic first-order phase transitions

Understand

Using the holographic correspondence as a tool, we study the dynamics of first-order phase transitions in strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature.

• Considering an evolution from the large to the small temperature phase, we compute the nucleation rate of bubbles of true vacuum in the metastable phase.
• For this purpose, we find the relevant configurations (bounces) interpolating between the vacua and we compute the related effective actions.
• We start by revisiting the compact Randall-Sundrum model at high temperature.