Instantons in stochastic quantisation

DOI10.1016/0378-4371(87)90064-1MaRDI QIDQ1116565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Smith

Publication date 1987

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(87)90064-1

zbMATH Keywords

Bosonic field theoriescomputer simulationslong term behaviourstochastic differential equationsstochastic quantisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

Review text

Bosonic field theories may be formulated in terms of stochastic differential equations. The characteristics long term behaviour of these systems is a decay into the global minimum of their Hamiltonian. If local minima exist, the rate of this decay is determined by instanton effects. We calculate the decay rate and perform computer simulations on a \(1+1\) dimensional model to test the instanton approximation. We find the instanton approximations to be in very good agreement with the simulation results.

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