Chaos Enforced Instanton Tunnelling in One-Dimensional Model with Periodic Potential

2002/09/25 by V. I. Kuvshinov, A. V. Kuzmin, R. G. Shulyakovsky
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

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published as Acta Phys.Polon. B33 (2002) 1721-1728 · 7 pages

arxiv created 2002/09/25 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The influence of chaos on properties of dilute instanton gas in quantum mechanics is studied. We demonstrate on the example of one-dimensional periodic potential that small perturbation leading to chaos squeezes instanton gas and increases the rate of instanton tunnelling.

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