Improved Action Method for Analysing Tunneling in Quantum Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v3 Astrophysics
Condensed Matter
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We describe a new method which allows one to evaluate the false vacuum decay rate for a general potential which may depend on an arbitrary number of scalar fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9504418,
title = {Improved Action Method for Analysing Tunneling in Quantum Field Theory},
author = {Alexander Kusenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9504418},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, latex, complete postscript file is available at ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Kusenko/UPR656T.ps