{
  "id": "hep-ph/9506386",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1995-06-21T21:18:13.000Z",
  "updated": "1995-06-21T21:18:13.000Z",
  "title": "Tunneling in quantum field theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking",
  "authors": [
    "Alexander Kusenko"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, latex, 2 figures appended (uuencoded postscript); complete postscript file is available at ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Kusenko/UPR671T.ps",
  "journal": "Phys.Lett. B358 (1995) 47-50",
  "doi": "10.1016/0370-2693(95)00995-W",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "cond-mat",
    "gr-qc",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "Tunneling in quantum field theory is well understood in the case of a single scalar field. However, in theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking, one has to take into account the additional zero modes which appear due to the Goldstone phenomenon. We calculate the false vacuum decay rate in this case. The result may differ significantly from the tunneling rates in the absence of symmetry breaking.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1995-06-21T21:18:13.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum field theory",
      "spontaneous symmetry breaking",
      "false vacuum decay rate",
      "single scalar field",
      "additional zero modes"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 396487
    }
  }
}