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We prove formulas for the multi-instanton corrections to the overlap and energies of a 1D same-level asymmetric double well using the Euclidean path integral. Both the odd and even instanton sectors are summed to all orders. The double well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Klaus Bering

We show that discrete-time quantum walks on the line, $\mathbb{Z}$, behave as "the quantum tunneling". In particular, quantum walkers can tunnel through a double-well with the transmission probability $1$ under a mild condition. This is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Kaname Matsue , Leo Matsuoka , Osamu Ogurisu , Etsuo Segawa

We present new results on quantum tunneling between deep potential wells, in the presence of a strong constant magnetic field. We construct a family of double well potentials containing examples for which the low-energy eigenvalue splitting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

We study the quantum-mechanical tunneling phenomenon in models which include the existence of non-equivalent vacua. For such a purpose we evaluate the euclidean propagator between two minima of the potential at issue in terms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Casahorran

We describe a computational investigation of tunneling at finite energy in a weakly coupled quantum mechanical system with two degrees of freedom. We compare a full quantum mechanical analysis to the results obtained by making use of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 G. F. Bonini , A. G. Cohen , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

Starting from trace formulae for the tunnelling splittings (or decay rates) analytically continued in the complex time domain, we obtain explicit semiclassical expansions in terms of complex trajectories that are selected with appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jérémy Le Deunff , Amaury Mouchet

By using a usual instanton method we obtain the energy splitting due to quantum tunneling through the triple well barrier. It is shown that the term related to the midpoint of the energy splitting in propagator is quite different from that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Soo-Young Lee , Jae-Rok Kahng , Sahng-Kyoon Yoo , D. K. Park , C. H. Lee , Chang Soo Park , Eui-Soon Yim

This paper is devoted to the study of quantum dissipation in cluster decay phenomena in the frame of the Lindblad approach to quantum open systems. The tunneling of a metastable state across a piecewise quadratic potential is envisaged for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Misicu

A formula suitable for a quantitative evaluation of the tunneling effect in a ferromagnetic particle is derived with the help of the instanton method. The tunneling between n-th degenerate states of neighboring wells is dominated by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 J. -Q. Liang , Y. -B. Zhang , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , Jian-Ge Zhou , F. Zimmerschied , F. -C. Pu

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

Quantum tunneling is the quantum-mechanical effect where a particle tunnels through a classically forbidden region. Double Square Well Potential (DSWP) is a system where this phenomenon is feasible. Numerous phenomena can be illustrated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. T. Tserkis , Ch. C. Moustakidis , S. E. Massen , C. P. Panos

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Levkov , S. Sibiryakov

We find a gravitational instanton that connects an initial state corresponding to a single-centered extremal Reissner-Nordstrom (ERN) black hole configuration, to a final state corresponding to a multi-centered configuration. This instanton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Hyeyoun Chung

Quantum antidot, a small potential hill introduced into a two-dimensional electron system, presents an attractive tool to study quantum mechanics of interacting electrons.Here, we report experiments on electron resonant tunneling via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-24 V. J. Goldman , Jun Liu , A. Zaslavsky

Quantum tunneling of the ground and first excited states in a quantum superposition driven by a novel analytical configuration of a double-well (DW) potential is investigated. Symmetric and asymmetric potentials are considered as to support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Alex E. Bernardini , Mariana Chinaglia

We develop an instantonic calculus to derive an analytical expression for the thermally-assisted tunneling decay rate of a metastable state in a fully connected quantum spin model. The tunneling decay problem can be mapped onto the Kramers…

The instanton-noninstanton (I-NI) transition in the tunneling process, which has been numerically observed in classically nonintegrable quantum maps, can be described by a perturbation theory based on an integrable Hamiltonian renormalized…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-03 Akira Shudo , Yasutaka Hanada , Teruaki Okushima , Kensuke S. Ikeda

An instanton method is proposed to investigate the quantum tunneling between two weakly-linked Bose-Einstein condensates confined in double-well potential traps. We point out some intrinsic pathologies in the earlier treatments of other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yunbo Zhang , H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten

The level splitting formula of an asymmetric double well potential is calculated taking into account the multi-instanton contributions (dilute gas approximation). Results can be related with known semiclassical ones obtained with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rivero

The tunneling effect of a periodic potential with an asymmetric twin barrier per period is calculated using the instanton method. The model is derived from the Hamiltonian of a small ferromagnetic particle in an external magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , Jian-Ge Zhou , F. Zimmerschied , F. -C. Pu