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Tables of Contents for Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling
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1. Introduction
2. Overview of macroscopic quantum tunneling
3. Some candidate systems for macroscopic quantum tunneling
4. Environmental problems
5. Harmonic environment
6. Quantum resonant oscillation in the harmonic environment
7. Quantum decay in the harmonic environment
8. General versus harmonic environments
9. The cat in the moonlight
10. Appendix A. Euclidean space and Hilbert space
11. Appendix B. Virtual ground state of a system of a single degree of freedom and its decay
12. Appendix C. Functional derivative
13. Appendix D. Miscellanea about spin
14. References.