Quantum Fluctuations and New Instantons I: Linear Unbounded Potential

DOI10.1002/PROP.202000100MaRDI QIDQ6066543zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Viatcheslav Mukhanov, E. Rabinovici, A. S. Sorin

Publication date 16 November 2023

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12445

zbMATH Keywords

false vacuum decayinstantonquantum fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: We consider the decay of a false vacuum in circumstances where the methods suggested by Coleman run into difficulties. We find that in these cases quantum fluctuations play a crucial role. Namely, they naturally induce both an ultraviolet and infrared cutoff scales, determined by the parameters of the classical solution, beyond which this solution cannot be trusted anymore. This leads to the appearance of a broad class of new $O(4)$ invariant instantons, which would have been singular in the absence of an ultraviolet cutoff. We apply our results to a case where the potential is unbounded from below in a linear way and in particular show how the problem of small instantons is resolved by taking into account the inevitable quantum fluctuations.

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