2022
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ac7f24
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False vacuum decay: an introductory review

Abstract: We review the description of tunnelling phenomena in the semi-classical approximation in ordinary quantum mechanics and in quantum field theory. In particular, we describe in detail the calculation, up to the first quantum corrections, of the decay probability per unit time of a metastable ground state. We apply the relevant formalism to the case of the standard model of electroweak interactions, whose ground state is metastable for sufficiently large values of the top quark mass. Finally, we discuss the impact of… Show more

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“…In this case, tunneling is not a single-particle process but rather a many-body one, which, in the field theory language, corresponds to the macroscopic tunneling of the field through the ferromagnetic energy barrier. This is expected to manifest through the stochastic formation of bubbles of true vacuum inside the false vacuum background [42]. This theory of false vacuum decay (FVD) was introduced in the context of quantum field theory [39,40] and applied to cosmological problems, but had no experimental verification so far because of the extreme energy scales and the lack of tunable parameters to investigate.…”
Section: Elementary Excitations -(Mixmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this case, tunneling is not a single-particle process but rather a many-body one, which, in the field theory language, corresponds to the macroscopic tunneling of the field through the ferromagnetic energy barrier. This is expected to manifest through the stochastic formation of bubbles of true vacuum inside the false vacuum background [42]. This theory of false vacuum decay (FVD) was introduced in the context of quantum field theory [39,40] and applied to cosmological problems, but had no experimental verification so far because of the extreme energy scales and the lack of tunable parameters to investigate.…”
Section: Elementary Excitations -(Mixmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(see the note on Gaussian integrals above). As this expression only depends on ¯ , in principle our task is simple: just find the solution(s) to the classical equations of motion and substitute them back into (46) to find the free energy and related quantities. Let us do that and then consider how to relate our findings to the false vacuum decay rate.…”
Section: Pos(tasi2022)003mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La storia di un verbo come danteggiare, ad esempio, sebbene di facile interpretazione formale (da Dante con -eggiare), appare per molti aspetti inesplorata. Secondo il GRADIT e lo Zingarelli (2024) (forse anche per il Devoto-Oli [2023], che indica genericamente «XVII sec.») la prima attestazione della voce risale al 1655, anno di pubblicazione del volume Il torto e il diritto del non si può di Daniello Bartoli: non è un caso, del resto, che un passo dell'opera compaia come primo esempio della voce nel GDLI. Qui l'autore si scaglia, con pungente ironia, contro il gusto arcaicizzante incarnato dalla Crusca, divenuto imperante ai suoi tempi: qualunque sia il genere del componimento in che scrivono, in tutti parlano una medesima lingua, e così in una lettera famigliare, come in un panegirico, in un'affetto [sic] di spirito come in una profana descrittione, vogliono Danteggiare 9 .…”
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