•Researchers utilized a 4000-qubit quantum annealer to model a 2D quantum Ising model, simulating false vacuum decay in metastable states.
•A new 'growth-dominated regime' was discovered, where domain expansion driven by resonant spin flips sharply exceeds initial nucleation.
•The findings demonstrate the power of large-scale quantum simulation for exploring non-equilibrium dynamics in fields like cosmology and quantum field theory.
•Researchers utilized a 4000-qubit quantum annealer to model a 2D quantum Ising model, simulating false vacuum decay in metastable states.
•A new 'growth-dominated regime' was discovered, where domain expansion driven by resonant spin flips sharply exceeds initial nucleation.
•The findings demonstrate the power of large-scale quantum simulation for exploring non-equilibrium dynamics in fields like cosmology and quantum field theory.
