Tunnel determinants from spectral zeta functions. Instanton effects in quantum mechanics

2014/02/04 by A. Alonso-Izquierdo, Alberto Alonso-Izquierdo, J. Mateos Guilarte +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum many-body systems #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1402.0703

16 pages, 2 figures, expanded version of a talk given by JMG in the II Russian-Spanish Congress in High Energy Physics, Sankt Petersurg, September 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we develop an spectral zeta function regularization procedure on the determinants of instanton fluctuation operators that describe the semi-classical order of tunnel effects bewtween degenerate vacua.

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