Tunneling in quantum field theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1 Condensed Matter
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Tunneling in quantum field theory is well understood in the case of a single scalar field. However, in theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking, one has to take into account the additional zero modes which appear due to the Goldstone phenomenon. We calculate the false vacuum decay rate in this case. The result may differ significantly from the tunneling rates in the absence of symmetry breaking.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9506386,
title = {Tunneling in quantum field theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking},
author = {Alexander Kusenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9506386},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, latex, 2 figures appended (uuencoded postscript); complete postscript file is available at ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Kusenko/UPR671T.ps