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Tunneling decay of false domain walls: the silence of the lambs

Mareike Haberichter
(
- Cambridge U., DAMTP and
- Kent U.
)
,
Richard MacKenzie
(
- Montreal U.
)
,
M.B. Paranjape
(
- Montreal U. and
- Cambridge U., DAMTP and
- St John's Coll., Cambridge
)
,
Yvan Ung
(
- Montreal U. and
- Kent U.
)

Jun 18, 2015

20 pages

Published in:

J.Math.Phys. 57 (2016) 4, 042303

Published: Apr 27, 2016

e-Print:

1506.05838 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1063/1.4947263

Report number:

UDEM-GPP-TH-15-242,
DAMTP-2015-30

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Abstract: (AIP)

We study the decay of “false” domain walls, that is, metastable states of the quantum theory where the true vacuum is trapped inside the wall with the false vacuum outside. We consider a theory with two scalar fields, a shepherd field and a field of sheep. The shepherd field serves to herd the solitons of the sheep field so that they are nicely bunched together. However, quantum tunnelling of the shepherd field releases the sheep to spread out uncontrollably. We show how to calculate the tunnelling amplitude for such a disintegration.

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20 pages, 9 figures

Domain walls
Tunneling
Scalar field theory
Equations of motion
Lagrangian mechanics
tunneling: quantum
domain wall
false vacuum
soliton

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