Ground States of the $\phi^4$ Double-Well QFT
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-11-01 v2
Abstract
At second order in perturbation theory, we find the ground states of the double-well quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions. The operators which create these ground states from the free vacuum are constructed explicitly at this order, as is the operator which interpolates between the ground states. As a warm up we perform the analogous calculation in quantum mechanics, where the true ground state is unique but in perturbation theory there are also two ground states.
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@article{arxiv.1909.04946,
title = {Ground States of the $\phi^4$ Double-Well QFT},
author = {Hui Liu and Yao Zhou and Jarah Evslin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04946},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
16 pages, no figures, v2: Important reference added