Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-11-15
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 125004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
28 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.125004
We present a general numerical method for computing precisely the false vacuum decay rate, including the prefactor due to quantum fluctuations about the classical bounce solution, in a self-interacting scalar field theory modeling the process of nucleation in four dimensional spacetime. This technique does not rely on the thin-wall approximation. The method is based on the Gelfand-Yaglom approach to determinants of differential operators, suitably extended to higher dimensions using angular momentum cutoff regularization. A related approach has been discussed recently by Baacke and Lavrelashvili, but we implement the regularization and renormalization in a different manner, and compare directly with analytic computations made in the thin-wall approximation. We also derive a simple new formula for the zero mode contribution to the fluctuation prefactor, expressed entirely in terms of the asymptotic behavior of the classical bounce solution.
Dunne Gerald V.
Min Hyunsoo
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