Tunnelling and Imaginary Time – Instantons
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Quantum mechanics underlies our understanding of the physical world, but although it possesses a classical limit, it shouldnt be thought of as just giving small deviations from the familiar rules of Newtonian mechanics. In particular, quantum tunnelling gives a remarkable example of a classical impossibility rendered possible in the real world. In this talk, well look at a striking way to think about these effects which generalizes to applications to condensed matter, particle physics and even cosmology.
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