Backreaction effects on nonequilibrium spectral function

DOI10.1142/S0217751X17501263MaRDI QIDQ5363983zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors S. Mendizabal, Juan Cristobal Rojas

Publication date 2 October 2017

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01118

zbMATH Keywords

nonequilibriumspectral functionthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: We show how to compute the spectral function for a scalar theory in two different scenarios: one which disregards back-reaction i.e. the response of the environment to the external particle, and the other one where back-reaction is considered. The calculation was performed using the Kadanoff-Baym equation through the Keldysh formalism. When back-reaction is neglected, the spectral function is equal to the equilibrium one, which can be represented as a Breit-Wigner distribution. When back-reaction is introduced we observed a damping in the spectral function of the thermal bath. Such behavior modifies the damping rate for particles created within the bath. This certainly implies phenomenological consequences right after the Big-Bang, when the primordial bath was created.

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