On the decay rate of the false vacuum

DOI10.1063/1.2759442MaRDI QIDQ3544378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Zoli

Publication date 8 December 2008

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1016

zbMATH Keywords

quantum tunnelingquartic potentialfinite size effects on metastabilitytemperature effects on the quantum fluctuation spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

Abstract: The finite size theory of metastability in a quartic potential is developed by the semiclassical path integral method. In the quantum regime, the relation between temperature and classical particle energy is found in terms of the first complete elliptic integral. At the sphaleron energy, the criterion which defines the extension of the quantum regime is recovered. Within the latter, the temperature effects on the fluctuation spectrum are evaluated by the functional determinants method and computed. The eigenvalue which causes metastability is determined as a function of size/temperature by solving a Lam`{e} equation. The ground state lifetime shows remarkable deviations with respect to the result of the infinite size theory.

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