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Three-loop correction to the instanton density. II. the sine-Gordon potential

  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

In this second paper on quantum fluctuations near the classical instanton configurations [see M.A. Escobar-Ruiz, E. Shuryak, and A.V. Turbiner, preceding article, Phys. Rev. D 92, 025046 (2015)], we focus on another well-studied quantum-mechanical problem, the one-dimensional sine-Gordon potential (the Mathieu potential). Using only the tools from quantum field theory, the Feynman diagrams in the instanton background, we calculate the tunneling amplitude (the instanton density) to the three-loop order. The result confirms (to six significant figures) the one recently recalculated by G.V. Dunne and M. Ünsal, Phys. Rev. D 89, 105009 (2014) from the resurgence perspective. As in the double well potential case, we found that the largest contribution is given by the diagrams originating from the Jacobian. We again observe that in the three-loop case individual Feynman diagrams contain irrational contributions, while their sum does not.

Original languageEnglish
Article number025047
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume92
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 29 2015

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