False vacuum decay of excited states in finite-time instanton calculus

Abstract Extracting information about a system’s metastable ground state energy employing functional methods usually hinges on utilizing the late-time behavior of the Euclidean propagator, practically impeding the possibility of determining decay widths of excited states. We demonstrate that such ob...

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Main Authors: B. Garbrecht, N. Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-05-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)076
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