Instantons, tunnelling, and confinement
Abstract
The relationship between instantons and confinement is discussed by means of several one-dimensional quantum-mechanical models. A necessary but not sufficient condition for confinement by instantons is that the vacuum be part of a continuous spectrum.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- October 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.18.2962
- Bibcode:
- 1978PhRvD..18.2962H