Stability of domain walls with inflationary fluctuations under potential bias, and gravitational wave signatures
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| author | Kitajima, Naoya Lee, Junseok Takahashi, Fuminobu Yin, Wen |
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| contents | A recent study has shown that domain walls with inflationary initial fluctuations exhibit remarkable stability against population bias due to long-range correlations, challenging the claims of prior research. In this paper, we study the dynamics of these domain walls in the presence of potential bias and show that they collapse with a lifetime several times longer than that due to thermal fluctuations. This is interpreted as a difference in the average distance between domain walls, leading us to derive a new formula for the domain wall lifetime which depends on the area parameter in a qualitatively different way from previous studies. In addition, we compute the spectrum of gravitational waves generated by such domain walls and find that both the peak frequency and the peak abundance are lowered in a manner that depends on the area parameter. Based on these findings, we also determine the necessary degree of vacuum degeneracy for axion domain walls to explain the isotropic cosmic birefringence. |
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| spellingShingle | Stability of domain walls with inflationary fluctuations under potential bias, and gravitational wave signatures Kitajima, Naoya Lee, Junseok Takahashi, Fuminobu Yin, Wen High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology A recent study has shown that domain walls with inflationary initial fluctuations exhibit remarkable stability against population bias due to long-range correlations, challenging the claims of prior research. In this paper, we study the dynamics of these domain walls in the presence of potential bias and show that they collapse with a lifetime several times longer than that due to thermal fluctuations. This is interpreted as a difference in the average distance between domain walls, leading us to derive a new formula for the domain wall lifetime which depends on the area parameter in a qualitatively different way from previous studies. In addition, we compute the spectrum of gravitational waves generated by such domain walls and find that both the peak frequency and the peak abundance are lowered in a manner that depends on the area parameter. Based on these findings, we also determine the necessary degree of vacuum degeneracy for axion domain walls to explain the isotropic cosmic birefringence. |
| title | Stability of domain walls with inflationary fluctuations under potential bias, and gravitational wave signatures |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14590 |