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Nonvacuum pseudoparticles, quantum tunneling and metastability

J. -Q. Liang, H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9505185

Abstract

It is shown that nonvacuum pseudoparticles can account for quantum tunneling and metastability. In particular the saddle-point nature of the pseudoparticles is demonstrated, and the evaluation of path-integrals in their neighbourhood. Finally the relation between instantons and bounces is used to derive a result conjectured by Bogomolny and Fateyev.

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