Quantum transport and the phase space structure of the Wightman functions

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)012zbMATH Open1434.81079arXiv1910.10979MaRDI QIDQ2185246FDOQ2185246

Authors: Henri Jukkala, Kimmo Kainulainen, Olli Koskivaara 

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the phase space structure of exact quantum Wightman functions in spatially homogeneous, temporally varying systems. In addition to the usual mass shells, the Wightman functions display additional coherence shells around zero frequency $k_0=0$, which carry the information of the local quantum coherence of particle-antiparticle pairs. We find also other structures, which encode non-local correlations in time, and discuss their role and decoherence. We give a simple derivation of the cQPA formalism, a set of quantum transport equations, that can be used to study interacting systems including the local quantum coherence. We compute quantum currents created by a temporal change in a particle's mass, comparing the exact Wightman function approach, the cQPA and the semiclassical methods. We find that the semiclassical approximation, which is fully encompassed by the cQPA, works surprisingly well even for very sharp temporal features. This is encouraging for the application of semiclassical methods in electroweak baryogenesis with strong phase transitions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10979

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum dissipative systemsthermal field theoryCP violationlocal quantum coherence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28)

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