Quartic double-well fluctuation determinant

ID: quartic-double-well-fluctuation-determinant

The quartic double-well instanton has . For a positive regulator and , the common infinite-line determinant ratio is . Its zero-mode factor is to leading order, giving the displayed primed ratio. Therefore the instanton fluctuation prefactor is and the double-well tunneling splitting is .

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