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How can we calculate simple quantum tunneling processes from the path integral?
I've been reading through Altland and Simons' Condensed Matter Field Theory, and am confused a bit by their discussion on tunneling and instantons. However I don't quite understand how this relates to ...
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Hawking Radiation as Tunneling
Firstly, I'm aware that Hawking radiation can be derived in the "normal" way using the Bogoliubov transformation. However, I was intrigued by the heuristic explanation in terms of tunneling. The ...
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