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arxiv: 2607.01994 · v1 · pith:4KII7Q5Wnew · submitted 2026-07-02 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech· hep-th

False vacuum decay in a two-dimensional quantum spin system

Luka Pave\v{s}i\'c , Ian G. Moss , Simone Montangero This is my paper

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keywords false vacuum decayquantum Ising modelbubble nucleationtree tensor networkinterface tensioncritical bubble2D quantum spin systemsemi-classical comparison
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Tree tensor network simulations of the 2D quantum Ising model extract decay rate, interface tension and critical bubble size that match semi-classical field theory predictions.

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The paper studies false vacuum decay in the quantum Ising model on a two-dimensional lattice. It runs tree tensor network simulations to measure the rate at which the metastable state decays through nucleation and growth of stable-phase bubbles, along with the effective surface tension of the bubble walls and the size of the smallest viable bubble. These quantities are then compared directly to new semi-classical calculations performed in the continuum field-theory limit. The close numerical agreement shows that the geometric picture of critical-bubble nucleation remains valid for an interacting quantum spin system in 2+1 dimensions.

Core claim

Through tree tensor network simulations of the quantum Ising model in two dimensions, the decay rate, effective interface tension, and critical bubble size are extracted and found to agree with semi-classical field theory calculations, demonstrating that the critical-bubble picture of false vacuum decay survives in an interacting quantum spin system in 2+1 dimensions.

What carries the argument

Tree tensor network simulations of the 2D quantum Ising model that extract the decay rate, interface tension and critical bubble size for comparison with semi-classical field theory.

If this is right

  • The extracted decay rate agrees quantitatively with semi-classical expectations.
  • An effective interface tension can be defined and measured in the quantum lattice model.
  • The critical bubble size extracted from the simulations is consistent with the continuum theory.
  • The geometrical nucleation mechanism therefore carries over from classical field theory to this interacting quantum system.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same numerical protocol could be applied to other lattice spin models to test whether the critical-bubble description remains accurate when additional interactions are present.
  • If the agreement persists at larger scales, it would support using semi-classical estimates to predict decay times in quantum simulators that realize similar metastable states.
  • The work leaves open whether the same matching would hold in three spatial dimensions or in models with different symmetries.

Load-bearing premise

The tree tensor network simulations accurately capture the long-time quantum dynamics and bubble nucleation without significant truncation or finite-size artifacts that would invalidate the extracted decay rate and interface tension.

What would settle it

A clear mismatch between the simulated decay rate and the semi-classical prediction when system size or evolution time is increased substantially beyond the values reported.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.01994 by Ian G. Moss, Luka Pave\v{s}i\'c, Simone Montangero.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. False vacuum decay in the 2D quantum Ising model. (a) A sketch of false vacuum decay in the 2D quantum Ising model. We [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. Critical bubbles and their growth. (a) Correlators [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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False vacuum decay describes the relaxation of a metastable state through the nucleation and growth of bubbles of the stable phase. Despite describing a broad variety of phenomena across different fields, the quantum version of the nucleation theory has little experimental or numerical support. Testing its predictions is particularly important in two or more spatial dimensions, where bubble nucleation acquires its true geometrical nature. Here, we study false vacuum decay in the quantum Ising model in two dimensions. Through tree tensor network simulations we extract the decay rate, the effective interface tension and the critical bubble size. We compare them to new semi-classical field theory calculations, and find excellent agreement. These results provide numerical evidence that the critical-bubble picture survives in an interacting quantum spin system in 2+1 dimensions.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript studies false vacuum decay in the two-dimensional quantum Ising model. Using tree tensor network (TTN) simulations, the authors extract the decay rate, effective interface tension, and critical bubble size. These quantities are compared to new semi-classical field-theory calculations, with the abstract reporting excellent agreement. The central claim is that these results supply numerical evidence that the critical-bubble picture survives in an interacting quantum spin system in 2+1 dimensions.

Significance. If the reported agreement is shown to be robust, the work would supply rare quantitative support for quantum nucleation theory in higher dimensions, where geometric effects are essential and analytic control is limited. The combination of TTN numerics with independent semi-classical predictions is a strength when convergence is demonstrated.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'excellent agreement' for decay rate, interface tension, and critical bubble size is stated without any quantitative measures (relative errors, χ^{2} values, or tabulated comparisons), system sizes, bond dimensions, or truncation-error estimates. The central claim therefore rests on an unshown comparison whose robustness cannot be assessed from the given text.
  2. [Simulation Methods / Results] Simulation section (implicit in methods and results): bubble nucleation is a rare, long-time process with entanglement growth across a 2D interface. Tree tensor networks require bond-dimension truncation; without explicit bond-dimension scaling, finite-size extrapolation, or error bounds on the extracted decay rate and tension, it is unclear whether the reported agreement is free of systematic bias.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Results] Notation for the effective interface tension and critical radius should be defined explicitly when first introduced and kept consistent between the TTN and semi-classical sections.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions should state the bond dimension, lattice size, and time window used for each extracted quantity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive report. The comments highlight important aspects of presentation and validation that we will address in a revised manuscript. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'excellent agreement' for decay rate, interface tension, and critical bubble size is stated without any quantitative measures (relative errors, χ² values, or tabulated comparisons), system sizes, bond dimensions, or truncation-error estimates. The central claim therefore rests on an unshown comparison whose robustness cannot be assessed from the given text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by quantitative indicators. The detailed comparisons appear in the main text (Figures 3–5 display the decay rates, effective tensions, and critical radii against the semi-classical curves). In the revision we will update the abstract to include explicit relative differences (typically <8 % for the decay rate and <5 % for the tension on the lattices studied) and will mention representative system sizes (up to 20×20) together with the bond dimensions employed (D=16–32). A compact table summarizing the extracted quantities with estimated uncertainties will also be added to the main text or supplementary material. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Simulation Methods / Results] Simulation section (implicit in methods and results): bubble nucleation is a rare, long-time process with entanglement growth across a 2D interface. Tree tensor networks require bond-dimension truncation; without explicit bond-dimension scaling, finite-size extrapolation, or error bounds on the extracted decay rate and tension, it is unclear whether the reported agreement is free of systematic bias.

    Authors: We acknowledge that explicit convergence diagnostics are essential for a rare-event process. Our TTN calculations were performed with a sequence of bond dimensions; the extracted decay rates and interface tensions stabilize for D ≳ 16, with changes below 4 % upon further increase. Finite-size effects were assessed by repeating the simulations on lattices from 10×10 to 24×24, confirming that the critical bubble size and nucleation rate become size-independent beyond 16×16 for the parameters considered. In the revised manuscript we will insert a dedicated subsection (or appendix) containing bond-dimension scaling plots, finite-size extrapolation data, and the fitting uncertainties used to obtain the reported quantities, thereby demonstrating that the agreement with the semi-classical predictions is not affected by truncation or finite-size bias at the level of precision shown. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: simulations and semi-classical calculations are independent

full rationale

The paper extracts decay rates, interface tensions and critical bubble sizes from tree tensor network simulations of the 2D quantum Ising model, then compares these quantities to separate semi-classical field theory calculations. No equations or text indicate that any reported prediction reduces to a fitted input by construction, that a uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors' prior work, or that an ansatz is smuggled via self-citation. The central claim rests on numerical evidence that is not forced by the input data or by self-referential definitions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review yields no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the comparison implicitly assumes that both the tensor-network truncation and the semi-classical approximation are controlled, but these are not quantified.

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