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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