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Transmission of an inhomogeneous state via resonant tunnelling

Saffin, Paul M.; Padilla, Antonio; Copeland, Edmund J.

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Authors

PAUL SAFFIN PAUL.SAFFIN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Physics

Edmund J. Copeland



Abstract

We recently investigated the nature of resonant tunnelling in standard scalar Quantum Field Theory, uncovering the conditions required for resonance. It was shown that whereas the homogeneous false vacuum may decay via bubble nucleation, it may not decay in a resonant fashion. The no-go theorem given there is circumvented in this study by considering an initial state other than the homogeneous false vacuum, and we confirm our mechanism by showing in an explicit model how resonant tunnelling occurs. Using this model we demonstrate how the tunnelling rate depends on the energy of specially constructed initial states, with these states corresponding to contracting spherical bubbles of some vacuum that evolve to a minimum radius and then tunnel to another vacuum, instead of the classical motion where the bubble would just start to expand.

Citation

Saffin, P. M., Padilla, A., & Copeland, E. J. (2008). Transmission of an inhomogeneous state via resonant tunnelling. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(9), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/055

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 28, 2008
Publication Date Sep 10, 2008
Deposit Date Apr 21, 2017
Publicly Available Date Apr 21, 2017
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Electronic ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2008
Issue 9
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/055
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/705055
Publisher URL http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/055/meta
Contract Date Apr 21, 2017

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