Thermalization of fermionic quantum fields

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00261-XzbMATH Open1050.82531arXivhep-ph/0212404OpenAlexW1975968065MaRDI QIDQ1874019FDOQ1874019

Authors: S. Borsányi, J. Serreau, Jürgen Berges 

Publication date: 21 May 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We solve the nonequilibrium dynamics of a 3+1 dimensional theory with Dirac fermions coupled to scalars via a chirally invariant Yukawa interaction. The results are obtained from a systematic coupling expansion of the 2PI effective action to lowest non-trivial order, which includes scattering as well as memory and off-shell effects. The dynamics is solved numerically without further approximation, for different far-from-equilibrium initial conditions. The late-time behavior is demonstrated to be insensitive to the details of the initial conditions and to be uniquely determined by the initial energy density. Moreover, we show that at late time the system is very well characterized by a thermal ensemble. In particular, we are able to observe the emergence of Fermi--Dirac and Bose--Einstein distributions from the nonequilibrium dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0212404

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zbMATH Keywords

nonequilibrium dynamicschirally invariant Yukawa interactionsystematic effective-action coupling expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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