Eyring--Kramers law for the hyperbolic ${\varphi }^4$ model

Abstract

We study the expected transition frequency between the two metastable states of a stochastic wave equation with double-well potential. By transition state theory, the frequency factorizes into two components: one depends only on the invariant measure, given by the ${\varphi }_d^4$ quantum field theory, and the other takes the dynamics into account. We compute the first component with the variational approach to stochastic quantization when $d=2,3$. For the two-dimensional equation with random data but no stochastic forcing, we also compute the transmission coefficient.

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