false vacuum (English, noun)
expansion: false vacuum (plural false vacuums or false vacua)
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
quantum-field-theory
glosses: A (hypothetical) metastable vacuum whose energy state is at a local minimum different from the global minimum; a vacuum that is relatively stable and long-lived but which still may decay to a lower-energy state.
Forms:
form: false vacuums
tags: plural
form: false vacua
tags: plural
form: false-vacuum
tags: alternative
attributive