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  "abstract": "We quantify the impact of higher-dimensional operators in the effective theory for bubble nucleation, focusing on supercooled phase transitions in the classically conformal Abelian-Higgs model. While high-temperature dimensional reduction organizes hard thermal corrections into a tower of operators in a three-dimensional effective field theory, recent results show that dimension-six terms can dominate over higher-loop corrections to the equilibrium thermodynamics of the strongest transitions. To assess their effect on the nucleation rate and the derived near-equilibrium phase-transition observables, we develop a perturbative framework that includes them in the full one-loop nucleation rate. Including higher-dimensional operators both in the bounce action and in the fluctuation determinants, we solve the resulting Sturm-Liouville problem without a derivative expansion, using a modified Gel'fand-Yaglom method. For strongly supercooled transitions, we find that higher-dimensional operators only marginally affect the nucleation rate and the resulting observables. As a byproduct, we delineate the regime of validity of the high-temperature nucleation effective theory in supercooled phase transitions.",
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      "name": "Fabio Bernardo"
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    {
      "name": "Maciej Kierkla"
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    {
      "name": "Nicholas Leister"
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    {
      "name": "Philipp Schicho"
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    {
      "name": "Pedro Schwaller"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/a46ze934skgpm.bib",
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2610.12284",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.12284",
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  "published": "2026-10-08",
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  "title": "Bubble nucleation with thermal higher-dimensional operators",
  "title_text": "Bubble nucleation with thermal higher-dimensional operators",
  "type": "preprint",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:27:54Z",
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