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I investigate the tunneling decay rate of a polaritonic system formed by a strong coupling between a vacuum cavity mode and $N$ metastable systems. Using a simple model potential, I find the instanton solutions controlling the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Kalle S. U. Kansanen

$\beta$-decay is known to play an essential role in the rapid neutron capture process ($r$-process) during $(n, \gamma) \leftrightarrow (\gamma, n)$ equilibrium and freeze-out when the neutron-rich nuclei decay back to stability. Recent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Yukiya Saito , Ante Ravlić , Pranav Nalamwar , Rebecca Surman

We study the behavior of two diferent models at finite temperature in a $D$-dimensional spacetime. The first one is the $\lambda\varphi^{4}$ model and the second one is the Gross-Neveu model. Using the one-loop approximation we show that in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. P. C. Malbouisson , N. F. Svaiter

Based on experimental data, we propose a model to evaluate the energy dissipated during quantum tunneling processes in solid-state junctions. This model incorporates a nonlinear friction force expressed in the general form f(x)={\gamma}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Edgar J. Patiño , L. Rios E. , N. G. Kelkar , Daniel Lopez

This paper investigates the beta decay of nuclei within the sd model space, encompassing the $0d_{3/2}$, $0d_{5/2}$, and $1s_{1/2}$ shells. We comprehensively analyze their decay characteristics, including the half-life, $logft$ value, Q…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-25 Surender Siwach

By using an exact analytical approach to the time evolution of decay we investigate the tunneling decay of ultracold single atoms, to discuss the conditions for deviations of the exponential decay law. We find that $R$, given by the ratio…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Gastón García-Calderón , Roberto Romo

We study dynamical aspects of the plane-wave matrix model at finite temperature. One-loop calculation around general classical vacua is performed using the background field method, and the integration over the gauge field moduli is carried…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoyuki Kawahara , Jun Nishimura , Kentaroh Yoshida

We have calculated rates of $\beta^{-}$ decay to both continuum and bound states separately for some fully ionized (bare) atoms in the mass range A $\approx$ 60-240. One of the motivations of this work is that the previous theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Arkabrata Gupta , Chirashree Lahiri , S. Sarkar

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander Kusenko

An analysis is presented of the expectations of the thermal model for particle production in collisions of small nuclei. The maxima observed in particle ratios of strange particles to pions as a function of beam energy in heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-14 J. Cleymans , B. Hippolyte , H. Oeschler , K. Redlich , N. Sharma

Calculations for electron capture rates on nuclei with atomic numbers between $Z=20$ and $Z=52$ are performed in a self-consistent finite-temperature covariant energy density functional theory within the relativistic quasiparticle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 A. Ravlić , S. Giraud , N. Paar , R. G. T. Zegers

The $\alpha$-decay half lives of nuclei in the decay from element $^{277}112$ are calculated in a WKB framework using DDM3Y interaction and experimental Q-values. Theoretical estimation of half lives in the same quantum tunneling model,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Samanta , D. N. Basu , P. Roy Chowdhury

Saturation properties and liquid-gas phase transition of nucleus are analysed in the framework of Hatree-Fock theory. We modify Hill-Wheller formula with a finite-size-effect parameter by fitting the zero-temperature properties of nucleus.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Fu-Guang Cao , Shan-de Yang

This paper proposes a universal microscopic model for the shallow confinement regime of single-electron tunneling devices. We consider particle escape from a quantum well generically emerging as a bifurcation in a smooth electrostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Austris Akmentinsh , Niels Ubbelohde , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

By employing the Coulomb proximity potential model (CPPM) in conjunction with 22 distinct proximity potential models, we investigated the temperature dependence and the effects of proton number and neutron number on the diffusion parameters…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-03 Panpan Qi , Xuanpeng Xiao , Gongming Yu , Haitao Yang , Qiang Hu

The analytical bounce solution is derived in terms of the polygamma function in the Caldeira-Leggett's dissipative quantum tunneling model. The classical action for the bounce solution lies between the upper and lower bounds in the full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Park

In this paper, a decay vacuum model $\bar{\rho}_\Lambda=3\sigma M_p^2H_0 H$ is revisited by detailed analysis of background evolution and perturbation equations. We show the imprints on CMB temperature and matter power spectrum from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lixin Xu , Yuting Wang , Hyerim Noh

We calculate the rate for the radiative neutrino decay in a thermal background of electrons and photons, taking into account the effect of the stimulated emission of photons in the thermal bath. We show that the rate is enhanced by a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Jose F. Nieves , Palash B. Pal

The radiative neutron capture reaction rates have been studied at very low energies which are of interest for nuclear astrophysics. The rates for many of these reactions have remained independent of temperature so far. The temperature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-26 Vinay Singh , Joydev Lahiri , D. N. Basu

Recent studies of neutral gas-phase reactions characterized by barriers show that certain complex forming processes involving light atoms are enhanced by quantum mechanical tunneling at low temperature. Here, we performed kinetic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-04 Kevin M. Hickson , Jean-Christophe Loison , Dianailys Nunez-Reyes , Raphael Mereau