Semiclassical methods for unstable states
Abstract
We find a role for previously rejected unstable solitons. They describe processes by which a metastable vacuum state decays. Using these solutions we find a halflife for such states which agrees with that obtained by more restrictive methods.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- March 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(77)90099-5
- Bibcode:
- 1977PhLB...67..186S