Hawking-Moss bounces and vacuum decay rates

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.251303MaRDI QIDQ3107771zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Erick J. Weinberg

Publication date 26 December 2011

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612146

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: The conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and at the top of a potential barrier, leading to the implausible conclusion that transitions to distant vacua can be as likely as those to a nearby one. I analyze this issue using a nongravitational example with analogous properties. I show that such HM bounce do not give reliable rate calculations, but are instead related to the probability of finding a quasistable configuration at a local potential maximum.

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