TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
AU - Garbrecht, Björn
AU - Millington, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Physical Society.
PY - 2015/12/21
Y1 - 2015/12/21
N2 - We use a Green's function approach in order to develop a method for calculating the tunneling rate between radiatively generated nondegenerate vacua. We apply this to a model that exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, where we determine the self-consistent tunneling configuration and illustrate the impact of gradient effects that arise from accounting for the underlying space-time inhomogeneity.
AB - We use a Green's function approach in order to develop a method for calculating the tunneling rate between radiatively generated nondegenerate vacua. We apply this to a model that exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, where we determine the self-consistent tunneling configuration and illustrate the impact of gradient effects that arise from accounting for the underlying space-time inhomogeneity.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84953252098
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 12
M1 - 125022
ER -