Restricted phase-space approximation in real-time stochastic quantization

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.11.004MaRDI QIDQ307120zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ryoji Anzaki, Kenji Fukushima, Yoshimasa Hidaka, Takashi Oka

Publication date 1 September 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3154

zbMATH Keywords

complex Langevin equationnumerical simulationreal-time dynamicsscalar field theorystochastic quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Stochastic quantization (81S20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We perform and extend real-time numerical simulation of a low-dimensional scalar field theory or a quantum mechanical system using stochastic quantization. After a brief review of the quantization method and the complex Langevin dynamics, we calculate the propagator and make a comparison with analytical results. This is a first step toward general applications, and we focus only on the vacuum properties of the theory; this enables us to handle the boundary condition with the $iepsilon$ prescription in frequency space. While we can control stability of the numerical simulation for any coupling strength, our results turn out to flow into an unphysical fixed-point, which is qualitatively understood from the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation. We propose a simple truncation scheme, "restricted phase-space approximation," to avoid the unphysical fixed-point. With this method, we obtain stable results at reasonably good accuracy. Finally we give a short discussion on the closed-time path formalism and demonstrate the direct computation of the vacuum expectation value not with the $iepsilon$ prescription but from an explicit construction of the Feynman kernel.

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