Generalised escape paths for dynamical tunneling in QFT

Understand

We present a formalism based on the functional Schr\"odinger equation to analyse time-dependent tunneling in quantum field theory at the semi-classical level.

• The full problem is reduced step by step to a finite dimensional quantum mechanical setup and solved using the WKB approximation.
• As an example, we consider tunneling from a homogeneous oscillating initial state in scalar quantum field theory.