Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-03-31
Mod.Phys.Lett. A17 (2002) 1165-1174
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
RevTex, 13 pages
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732302007211
We consider in detail how the quantum-mechanical tunneling phenomenon occurs in a well-behaved octic potential. Our main tool will be the euclidean propagator just evaluated between two minima of the potential at issue. For such a purpose we resort to the standard semiclassical approximation which takes into account the fluctuations over the instantons, i.e. the finite-action solutions of the euclidean equation of motion. As regards the one-instanton approach, the functional determinant associated with the so-called stability equation is analyzed in terms of the asymptotic behaviour of the zero-mode. The conventional ratio of determinants takes as reference the harmonic oscillator whose frequency is the average of the two different frequencies derived from the minima of the potential involved in the computation. The second instanton of the model is studied in a similar way. The physical effects of the multi-instanton configurations are included in this context by means of the alternate dilute-gas approximation where the two instantons participate to provide us with the final expression of the propagator.
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