Thin walls and junctions: Vacuum decay in multidimensional field landscapes

Balasubramanian, Vijay; Czech, Bartłomiej; Larjo, Klaus; Levi, Thomas S.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.025019

Title: Thin walls and junctions: Vacuum decay in multidimensional field landscapes

Authors:: Balasubramanian, Vijay; Czech, Bartłomiej; Larjo, Klaus; Levi, Thomas S.

Publication Date:: Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2011

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1100375

Resource Type:: Publisher's Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 84 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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                    Balasubramanian, Vijay, Czech, Bartłomiej, Larjo, Klaus, and Levi, Thomas S. Thin walls and junctions: Vacuum decay in multidimensional field landscapes.  United States: N. p., 2011. 
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                    Balasubramanian, Vijay, Czech, Bartłomiej, Larjo, Klaus, & Levi, Thomas S. Thin walls and junctions: Vacuum decay in multidimensional field landscapes.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.025019

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Quantum tunneling and negative eigenvalues journal, February 1988

Fate of the false vacuum: Semiclassical theory journal, May 1977

Aspects of Symmetry book, January 1985

Tunneling in a time-dependent setting journal, December 1996

Statistical theory of the decay of metastable states journal, September 1969

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Quantum tunneling and negative eigenvalues
journal, February 1988

Fate of the false vacuum: Semiclassical theory
journal, May 1977

Aspects of Symmetry
book, January 1985

Tunneling in a time-dependent setting
journal, December 1996

Statistical theory of the decay of metastable states
journal, September 1969

Action minima among solutions to a class of Euclidean scalar field equations
journal, June 1978

Fate of the false vacuum. II. First quantum corrections
journal, September 1977