The Role of Fermions in Bubble Nucleation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2 Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We present a study of the role of fermions in the decay of metastable states of a scalar field via bubble nucleation. We analyze both one and three-dimensional systems by using a gradient expansion for the calculation of the fermionic determinant. The results of the one-dimensional case are compared to the exact results of previous work.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608080,
title = {The Role of Fermions in Bubble Nucleation},
author = {D. G. Barci and E. S. Fraga and C. A. A. de Carvalho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608080},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages, revtex, 9 figures