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Recent developments in the understanding of real-time path integrals led to the development of the ``steadyon picture'' for the semi-classical calculation of quantum tunneling rates. We discuss tunneling out of a generic localized initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Joshua Lin , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Thomas Steingasser

We summarize recent work on the consistent calculation of bubble-nucleation rates. Our approach is based on the notion of a real coarse-grained potential. The bubble-nucleation rate is calculated through an expansion around the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Tetradis

We report measurements of dynamical tunneling rates of a Bose-Einstein condensate across a barrier in classical phase space. The atoms are initially prepared in quantum states that extend over a classically regular island region. We focus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 R. K. Shrestha , J. Ni , W. K. Lam , G. S. Summy , S. Wimberger

The stochastic spectral expansion method offers a simple framework for calculations in de Sitter spacetimes. We show how to extend its reach to metastable vacuum states, both in the case when the potential is bounded from below, and when it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-07 José Eliel Camargo-Molina , Arttu Rajantie

We investigate the Hawking radiation of Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) black hole by massive particles tunneling method. We consider the spacetime background to be dynamical, incorporate the self-gravitation effect of the emitted particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-01 M. Atiqur Rahman , M. Ilias Hossain

We suggest a technique that explicitly accounts for the structure of an initial state of quantum field in the semiclassical calculations of path integral in curved space-time, and consider decay of metastable state (conformal vacuum of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Rubakov , S. M. Sibiryakov

We give an explicit stochastic Hamiltonian model of discontinuous unitary evolution for quantum spontaneous jumps like in a system of atoms in quantum optics, or in a system of quantum particles that interacts singularly with "bubbles"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. P. Belavkin , O. Melsheimer

We use analytic estimates and numerical simulations to explore the stochastic approach to vacuum decay. According to this approach, the time derivative of a scalar field, which is in a local vacuum state, develops a large fluctuation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-11 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Heling Deng , Alexander Vilenkin

We discuss new possible tunneling processes in the presence of gravity. We formulate quantum tunneling using the Wheeler-deWitt canonical quantization and the WKB approximation. The distinctive feature of our formulation is that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Naritaka Oshita , Yutaro Shoji , Masahide Yamaguchi

In this work, a Josephson junction consisting of two superconducting layers sandwiching an insulating layer is explored, which is subject to the effects of thermal fluctuations. The precise expressions for the evolution of Josephson phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-05 Shenglan Yuan

We investigate the entropy dynamics of de Sitter spacetime during the inflationary phase. The cosmological horizon in de Sitter spacetime, which limits the causally accessible region for an observer, exhibits thermal properties similar to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Hiromasa Tajima , Yasusada Nambu

In Refs. (M. Atiqur Rahman, M. Ilias Hossain (2012) Phys. Lett. B {\bf 712} 1), we have developed Hamilton-Jacobi method for dynamical spacetime and discussed Hawking radiation of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole by massive particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Ilias Hossain , M. Atiqur Rahman

We develop a semiclassical density functional theory in the context of quantum dots. Coulomb blockade conductance oscillations have been measured in several experiments using nanostructured quantum dots. The statistical properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Denis Ullmo , Tatsuro Nagano , Steven Tomsovic , Harold U. Baranger

The Tunneling Potential Formalism was introduced to calculate the tunneling actions that control vacuum decay as an alternative to the standard Euclidean Formalism. The new approach sets the problem as a simple variational problem in field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-01 J. R. Espinosa

We study a generalization of the Brownian bridge as a stochastic process that models the position and velocity of inertial particles between the two end-points of a time interval. The particles experience random acceleration and are assumed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou

In the paper, the temperature associated with a dynamical spherically symmetric black hole or with a cosmological horizon is investigated from the point of view of a point-like detector. First, we briefly review the Hamilton-Jacobi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

We analyze vacuum tunneling in quantum field theory in a general formalism by using the Wigner representation. In the standard instanton formalism, one usually approximates the initial false vacuum state by an eigenstate of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 Mark P. Hertzberg , Masaki Yamada

In this paper we study some thermal properties of quantum field theories in de Sitter space by means of holographic techniques. We focus on the static patch of de Sitter and assume that the quantum fields are in the standard Bunch-Davies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Willy Fischler , Phuc H. Nguyen , Juan F. Pedraza , Walter Tangarife

We employ Riesz's fractional derivative into the Wheeler--DeWitt equation for a closed de Sitter geometry and obtain the no-boundary and tunneling wavefunctions. From the corresponding probability distributions, the event horizon of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 S. Jalalzadeh , E. W. Oliveira Costa , P. V. Moniz

We investigate the formation via tunneling of inflating (false-vacuum) bubbles in a true-vacuum background, and the reverse process. Using effective potentials from the junction condition formalism, all true- and false-vacuum bubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Anthony Aguirre , Matthew C. Johnson