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WKB approximation and tunneling in theories with noncanonical kinetic terms

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 96, Issue 5, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.056021

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  1. NSF [PHY-1518742]
  2. University of Pennsylvania
  3. US Department of Energy (HEP) [DE-SC0013528]
  4. NASA ATP [NNX11AI95G]

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Tunneling is a fascinating aspect of quantum mechanics that renders the local minima of a potential meta-stable, with important consequences for particle physics, for the early hot stage of the universe, and more speculatively, for the behavior of the putative multiverse. While this phenomenon has been studied extensively for systems which have canonical kinetic terms, many theories of fundamental physics contain fields with noncanonical kinetic structures. It is therefore desirable to have a detailed framework for calculating tunneling rates and initial states after tunneling for these theories. In this work we present such a rigorous formulation and illustrate its use by applying it to a number of examples.

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