• DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/29/6/065011
• Corpus ID: 53489520

An exact tunneling solution in a simple realistic landscape

@article{Dutta2012AnET,
  title={An exact tunneling solution in a simple realistic landscape},
  author={Koushik Dutta and Pascal M. Vaudrevange and Alexander Westphal},
  journal={Classical and Quantum Gravity},
  year={2012},
  volume={29},
  pages={065011}
}

• K. Dutta, P. Vaudrevange, A. Westphal
• Published 23 February 2011
• Physics
• Classical and Quantum Gravity

We present an analytical solution for the tunneling process in a piecewise linear and quadratic potential which does not make use of the thin-wall approximation. A quadratic potential allows for the smooth attachment of various slopes exiting into the final minimum of a realistic potential. Our tunneling solution thus serves as a realistic approximation to situations such as populating a landscape of slow-roll inflationary regions by tunneling, and it is valid for all regimes of the barrier parameters. We comment briefly on the inclusion of gravity.