Nonvacuum pseudoparticles, quantum tunneling and metastability
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It is shown that nonvacuum pseudoparticles can account for quantum tunneling and metastability. In particular the saddle-point nature of the pseudoparticles is demonstrated, and the evaluation of path-integrals in their neighbourhood. Finally the relation between instantons and bounces is used to derive a result conjectured by Bogomolny and Fateyev.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9505185,
title = {Nonvacuum pseudoparticles, quantum tunneling and metastability},
author = {J. -Q. Liang and H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9505185},
year = {2007}
}
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Latex, 16 pages, no figures