We consider an alternative scenario of innation which can account for a spatially open universe. It is similar to the old innation in which the bubble nucleation occurs in the sea of false vacuum, but diiers from it in that the second slow rollover innation occurs inside a nucleated bubble. Hence our observable universe is entirely contained in one nucleated bubble. The signiicance of the scena...

We study the rate of true vacuum bubble nucleation numerically for a φ4 field system coupled to a source of thermal noise. We compare in detail the cases of additive and multiplicative noise. We pay special attention to the choice of initial field configuration, showing the advantages of a version of the quenching technique. We advocate a new method of extracting the nucleation time scale that ...

We have applied density functional methods to predict the nucleation rates of bubbles in superheated, stretched, or supersaturated binary fluid mixtures. Our model uses Lennard-Jones mixtures, with mixing rules chosen to allow either ideal or nonideal solution behavior. Deviations from the predictions of classical nucleation theory are in general quite large, with the locus of observable bubble...

Experiments reported herein document heterogeneous crystal nucleation on bubbles in supercooled lithium disilicate melt. Crystalline lithium disilicate (Li2Si2O5) nucleated and grew on small bubbles (;1 mm) with a one-to-one correspondence between the number of bubbles and crystals (ranging from ,102 to ;105 bubbles/mm3). Crystals grew on large bubbles (.100 mm) only in samples fused in N2, sug...

Protein molecules absorb and crystallise on He, N 2 , O CO gas bubbles as soft templates with prompted nucleation gas–liquid–solid interface. Crystals attached bubble form curved crystal surface float in the solution.

We present experimental and theoretical results on intrusion-extrusion cycles of water in hydrophobic mesoporous materials, characterized by independent cylindrical pores. The intrusion, which takes place above the bulk saturation pressure, can be well described using a macroscopic capillary model. Once the material is saturated with water, extrusion takes place upon reduction of the externally...

We analyze the properties of naturally formed nanobubbles in Lennard-Jones molecular dynamics simulations of liquid-to-vapor nucleation in the boiling and the cavitation regimes. The large computational volumes provide a realistic environment at unchanging average temperature and liquid pressure, which allows us to accurately measure properties of bubbles from their inception as stable, critica...

The formation of continuous patterns of nanostructured materials using directed self-assembly under external fields has generated considerable current research interest. We demonstrate for the first time such continuous patterning by inducing irreversible self-assembly leading to nucleation in mesocopic materials (inorganic, organic, and nanoparticles) using a tightly focused laser beam in an o...

Understanding bubble dynamics is critical to the design and optimization of two-phase microchannel heat sinks. This paper presents a hybrid experimental and computational methodology that reconstructs the three-dimensional bubble geometry, as well as provides other critical information associated with nucleating bubbles in microchannels. Rectangular cross-section silicon microchannels with hydr...