BubbleDet 1.0.7

A package for computing functional determinants

Computes the one-loop functional determinant entering the bubble nucleation rate, or vacuum decay rate.

Documentation

For complete package documentation, see the BubbleDet homepage. For more information about the mathematics behind BubbleDet, see the accompanying paper on arXiv.

Requirements

Based on Python 3. Package dependencies are automatically installed with pip or conda. For a list, see pyproject.toml in the git respository.

Installation

Pip

The latest stable version can be installed as a package with pip (or pip3) using:

pip install BubbleDet

Alternatively, for the development version, one can clone the git respository. and install with:

pip install -e .

from the base directory of the repository. To install also optional dependencies for the docs and tests, instead run:

pip install -e .[docs,tests]

Conda

The latest stable version can also be installed as a package with conda, from the conda-forge repository:

conda install -c conda-forge BubbleDet

Tests

After installation of the development version, the tests can be run with:

pytest -v

from the base directory of the git repository.

Examples

A number of examples are collected in the directory examples/ of the git repo, including a simple real scalar model and a comparison to analytic results in the thin-wall limit. The examples can also be found on the BubbleDet homepage. After installing the package, these can be run directly with Python, as in:

python3 first_example.py