G. E. Volovik, “Particle decay in de Sitter spacetime via quantum tunneling”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2009, Volume 90, Issue 1,Pages <nobr>3

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GRAVITY, ASTROPHYSICS

Particle decay in de Sitter spacetime via quantum tunneling

G. E. Volovik^ab

^a Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02015, HUT, Finland
^b Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS

Abstract: The quantum tunneling process of decay of the composite particle in the de Sitter vacuum looks as thermal radiation with the effective temperature twice larger than the Hawking temperature associated with the cosmological horizon.

PACS: 04.62.+v

Received: 02.06.2009

Language: English