The Role of Fermions in Bubble Nucleation
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We present a study of the role of fermions in the decay of metastable states of a scalar field via bubble nucleation. We analyze both one and threedimensional systems by using a gradient expansion for the calculation of the fermionic determinant. The results of the one-dimensional case are compared to the exact results of previous work.
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تاریخ انتشار 1996