BUBBLES WITHOUT CORES

Shen, T.C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.37.3537

BUBBLES WITHOUT CORES

T.C. Shen
(
- Washington U., St. Louis
)

1988

6 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 37 (1988) 3537-3542

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.37.3537

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The decay of a false vacuum in a theory without a true vacuum is studied. Using variational arguments, we find that for a class of potentials of the type aφi+bφj (a>0,b<0 and i

FIELD THEORY: SCALAR
FIELD THEORY: VACUUM STATE
STABILITY
EFFECT: TUNNELING
EFFECT: INSTANTON
FIELD THEORY: PATH INTEGRAL
APPROXIMATION: semiclassical
NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS

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