IMPROVED ACTION METHOD FOR ANALYZING TUNNELING IN QUANTUM-FIELD THEORY

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作者
KUSENKO, A
机构
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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10.1016/0370-2693(95)00994-V
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We describe a new method which allows one to evaluate the false vacuum decay rate for a general potential which may depend on an arbitrary number of scalar fields.
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