Speaker
Jose Espinosa
(Departm.of Physics & Astronomy)
Description
The Tunneling Potential formalism offers an alternative to the Euclidean bounce approach for calculating tunneling actions, which govern the exponential suppression of metastable vacua decay in quantum field theory. In this talk, I will discuss how this formalism elegantly describes gravitational effects on vacuum decay, bubble-of-nothing decays, domain walls, and more.
