Cosmic lockdown: How the environment can isolate quantum fields

Last updated: September 25, 2026 8:00 am

A simplified cosmological model suggests that decoherence can suppress quantum tunneling, effectively locking fields into the vacuum state they have reached.

Source: Phys.org

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