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Portsmouth-led cosmologists find decoherence can keep quantum fields trapped in false vacua
University of Portsmouth-led physicists find, in a simplified model, that decoherence can suppress quantum tunnelling and lock a field in its false vacuum. The Higgs field, which may itself sit in a false vacuum, is the example that motivates the work, though the study does not model it.
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