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PIRSA:08120058

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https://pirsa.org/08120058

Quantum and Thermal decay in de Sitter space

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:08120058,
            doi = {10.48660/08120058},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/08120058},
            author = {Brown, Adam},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Quantum and Thermal decay in de Sitter space},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2008},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:08120058 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/08120058}}
          }

Adam Brown Stanford University

Talk numberPIRSA:08120058
DOI10.48660/08120058
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

What does vacuum decay look like in an inflating, de Sitter, spacetime? Is it predominantly a quantum process of tunneling through the barrier, or a thermal process of tunneling over the barrier?