Fate of the False Vacuum

Coleman, S. (1977). Fate of the False Vacuum: Semiclassical Theory. Physical Review D, 15(6), 2929-2936.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1977

Volume

15

Issue

6

Pages

2929-2936

DOI

10.1103/physrevd.15.2929

DOI registrant

American Physical Society

Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.15.2929

Cited from

chemistry_materials, physics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Hidden Path and Barrier Crossing
  • T6 — Instanton Paths as Ontology vs Formalism: In semiclassical and path-integral quantization (Coleman 1977, Lapidus 1976), the instanton path—a classical-like trajectory in imaginary time that tunnels through the barrier—provides powerful calculational methods for tunneling rates and false-vacuum decay.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Coleman's abstract supports semiclassical barrier penetration and false-vacuum decay, but names no instanton path, imaginary time, or calculational method.

    “In the quantum version of the theory, the state of higher energy density becomes unstable through barrier penetration; it is a false vacuum. This is the first of two papers developing the qualitative and quantitative semiclassical theory of the decay of such a false vacuum for theories of a single scalar field with nonderivative interactions.”

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• Nucleation
  • Physics: magnetic- and ferroelectric-domain nucleation, flux-vortex nucleation in type-II superconductors, false-vacuum decay in cosmological inflation.

    This sourceDevelops the theory of false-vacuum decay by bubble nucleation, the cosmological/field-theory instance of the nucleation structure.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Coleman's abstract states false-vacuum decay by barrier penetration in scalar field theory, backing only that item of the list; it says nothing of inflation or the other three.

    “the state of higher energy density becomes unstable through barrier penetration; it is a false vacuum”

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