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Tunnelling and the Casimir effect on a -dimensional sphere
Jean Alexandre, Drew Backhouse
Two fundamental signatures of Quantum Mechanics are tunnelling and the Casimir effect. We examine the ground state energetic properties of a scalar field confined on a -dimensio…
Piecewise linear potentials for false vacuum decay and negative modes
Wen-Yuan Ai, Jean Alexandre, Sarben Sarkar
We study bounce solutions and associated negative modes in the class of piecewise linear triangular-shaped potentials that may be viewed as approximations of smooth potentials. In…
Mapping 1+1-dimensional black hole thermodynamics to finite volume effects
Jean Alexandre, Drew Backhouse, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou +2
Both black hole thermodynamics and finite volume effects in quantum field theory violate the null energy condition. Motivated by this, we compare thermodynamic features between two…
Double-well instantons in finite volume
Wen-Yuan Ai, Jean Alexandre, Matthias Carosi +2
Assuming a toroidal space with finite volume, we derive analytically the full one-loop vacuum energy for a scalar field tunnelling between two degenerate vacua, taking into account…