Particle decay in de sitter spacetime via quantum tunneling

2009/05/31 by G. E. Volovik · 54 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Anti-de Sitter space #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #De Sitter space #De Sitter universe #Entropy (arrow of time) #False vacuum #Hawking radiation #Horizon #Particle (ecology) #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum field theory in curved spacetime #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Quantum tunnelling #Spacetime #Thermal #Thermodynamics #Universe #de Sitter–Schwarzschild metric #gr-qc #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1134/s0021364009130013

published in Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters 90(1), 1-4 (Pleiades Publishing) · 5 pages, no figures, JETP Lett. style, version accepted in JETP Lett

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Abstract

The quantum tunneling process of decay of the composite particle in the de Sitter vacuum looks as thermal radiation with the effective temperature twice larger than the Hawking temperature associated with the cosmological horizon.

Citations

• SUBTLETIES IN THE QUASI-CLASSICAL CALCULATION OF HAWKING RADIATION
• Dynamic vacuum variable and equilibrium approach in cosmology
• Hawking Radiation as Tunneling

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