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Double well ground state energy splitting (or instanton flipping rate); rendering the implicit explicit

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arxiv 2403.18050 v1 pith:G3OPKTMN submitted 2024-03-26 quant-ph

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A prime example of quantum tunnelling is the semiclassical 'energy splitting' of the levels of a symmetrical double well potential, or equivalently the flipping rate of an instanton. Curiously the accepted expression for the ground state energy splitting in terms of the (smooth) potential function has not been pursued to the full explicitness available from classical mechanics. This implicitness is rectified here.

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