@article{article9cac660a, title = {Energy barriers between metastable states in first-order quantum phase transitions}, author = {Wald, Sascha and Timpanaro, Andre M. and Cormick, Cecilia and Landi, Gabriel Teixeira}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.97.023608}, journal = {Physical Review A} }