Path Integral for Mixed Tunneling, Polychronic Tunneling and Quantum Gravity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06774v3
• Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 14:40:49 GMT
• Title: Path Integral for Mixed Tunneling, Polychronic Tunneling and Quantum Gravity
• Authors: Yutaro Shoji
• Abstract summary: Quantum tunneling in a many-body system is much more non-trivial than that in a one-body system. Recently, a similar phenomenon, polychronic tunneling, has been proposed in quantum gravity.
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• Abstract: Quantum tunneling in a many-body system is much more non-trivial than that in a one-body system. The most characteristic phenomenon is the mixed tunneling, which has been studied in many fields for decades. For instance, let us consider a system where there are two coupled particles and only one of them feels a potential barrier. Quantum tunneling of such a system is not described by either Euclidean or Lorentzian time evolution and the exponent of the WKB wave function becomes complex. Recently, a similar phenomenon, polychronic tunneling, has been proposed in quantum gravity, which enhances the decay rate of a meta-stable vacuum by many orders of magnitude. In this paper, we present path integral formalism that is applicable to such systems. The formalism can be directly extended to quantum gravity and has some implications on the problem of time in quantum gravity. We also discuss a possible relation to the conventional path integral.

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