Numerical simulations of density perturbation and gravitational wave production from cosmological first-order phase transition
摘要
We conduct three-dimensional lattice simulations to study the density perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs) during the first-order phase transition (FOPT). We find that for phase transition strength α > 1, the forward motion of bubble walls becomes the primary source, whereas for α < 1, the dominant contribution to the density perturbation comes from the delay of vacuum decay. Additionally, the power spectrum of density perturbations generated by the phase transition exhibits a slope of k3 at small wavenumbers and k−1.5 at large wavenumbers. Furthermore, we calculate the GW power spectra, which exhibit the slope of k3 at small wavenumbers and k−2 at large wavenumbers. Our numerical simulations confirm that slow PTs can produce PBHs and provide predictions for the GW power spectrum, offering theoretical support for GW detection.