False vacuum in a ring of atoms ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Probing False Vacuum Decay and Bubble Nucleation in a Rydberg Atom Array"
In a ring of giant atoms, physicists witnessed for the first time how a false vacuum transforms into a true one — and confirmed a universal law governing such transitions.
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In a ring of giant atoms, physicists watched bubbles of 'true vacuum' being born — the same process that might have triggered the expansion of the universe in the first moments after the Big Bang. Such experiments help us understand quantum tunneling and the fate of the universe.
🎯 Rydberg atoms are so large that two such atoms a hundred micrometers apart interact — it's as if two people felt attraction across a football field.
🎬 The idea of false vacuum inspired Greg Egan's novel 'Schild's Ladder' — in it, a physics experiment accidentally triggers the transition of the entire universe into a new state.