684 citations · 13.5k across the 217 of their papers we have counts for
Showing 1995 · hep-phShow all
3 papers · 2 filters
hep-ph1995★ 7 cited
Supersymmetry in the false vacuum
Alexander Kusenko
A metastable state, or a false vacuum, is not an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian in quantum field theory. Its energy density has a non-zero imaginary part equal to its decay width. T…
hep-ph1995★ 26 cited
Tunneling in quantum field theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking
Alexander Kusenko
Tunneling in quantum field theory is well understood in the case of a single scalar field. However, in theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking, one has to take into account the…
hep-ph1995★ 52 cited
Improved Action Method for Analysing Tunneling in Quantum Field Theory
Alexander Kusenko
We describe a new method which allows one to evaluate the false vacuum decay rate for a general potential which may depend on an arbitrary number of scalar fields.