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Real-Time Instantons and Suppression of Collision-Induced Tunneling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider tunneling processes in QFT induced by collisions of elementary particles. We propose a semiclassical method for estimating the probability of these processes in the limit of very high collision energy. As an illustration, we evaluate the maximum probability of induced tunneling between different vacua in a (1+1)-dimensional scalar model with boundary interaction.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412253,
  title  = {Real-Time Instantons and Suppression of Collision-Induced Tunneling},
  author = {D. Levkov and S. Sibiryakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412253},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, JETP Letters style