Analysis of non-perturbative fluctuations in a triple-well potential

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(01)00265-1MaRDI QIDQ5936604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Casahorran

Publication date 2 July 2001

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0103010

zbMATH Keywords

multi-instanton configurationsquadratic fluctuationsquantum tunneling phenomenon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: We consider the quantum tunneling phenomenon in a well-behaved triple-well potential. As required by the semiclassical approximation we take into account the quadratic fluctuations over the instanton which represents as usual the localised finite-action solution of the euclidean equation of motion. The determinants of the quadratic differential operators at issue are evaluated by means of the Gelfang-Yaglom method. In doing so the explicit computation of the conventional ratio of determinants takes as reference the harmonic oscillator whose frequency is the average of the individual frequencies derived from the non-equivalent minima of the potential. Eventually the physical effects of the multi-instanton configurations are included in this approach. As a matter of fact we obtain information about the energies of the ground-state and the two first excited levels of the discrete spectrum at issue.

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