Hawking-Moss bounces and vacuum decay rates
Dec, 20064 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 98 (2007) 251303
e-Print:
- hep-th/0612146 [hep-th]
Report number:
- CU-TP-1171,
- KIAS-P06062
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Abstract:
The conventional interpretation of the Hawking-Moss (HM) solution implies a transition rate between vacua that depends only on the values of the potential in the initial vacuum and at the top of a potential barrier, leading to the implausible conclusion that transitions to distant vacua can be as likely as those to a nearby one. I analyze this issue using a nongravitational example with analogous properties. I show that such HM bounce do not give reliable rate calculations, but are instead related to the probability of finding a quasistable configuration at a local potential maximum.- 11.10.-z
- 04.62.+v
- 98.80.Cq
- field theory: scalar
- gravitation
- bubble: nucleation
- vacuum state: transition
- field equations: solution
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