Parametrized Path Approach to Vacuum Decay
arXiv:1911.12765 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.045021
Abstract
We develop a new real-time approach to vacuum decay based on a reduction to a finite number of degrees of freedom. The dynamics is followed by solving a generalized Schrödinger equation. We first apply this method to a real scalar field in Minkowski space and compare the decay rate with that obtained by the instanton approach. The main difference is in the early-time dynamics, where the decay is faster due to the tail of the wave function. We then apply it to a cold atom model recently proposed to simulate vacuum decay experimentally. This approach will be extended to include gravity in a future work.
19 pages, 13 figures, close to the version accepted for publication in PRD
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