Quantum kinetic theory for fermions in temporally varying backrounds

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/032MaRDI QIDQ445624zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matti Herranen, Kimmo Kainulainen, Pyry Matti Rahkila

Publication date 26 August 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1435

zbMATH Keywords

fermionsquantum kinetic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28)

Abstract: We derive quantum kinetic equations for fermions in a homogeneous time-dependent background in presence of decohering collisions, by use of the Schwinger-Keldysh CTP-formalism. The quantum coherence (between particles and antiparticles) is found to arise from new spectral solutions for the dynamical 2-point correlation function in the mean field limit. The physical density matrix $ho$ and its dynamics is shown to be necessarily dependent on the extrenous information on the system, and expressions that relate $ho$ to fundamental coherence functions and fermionic particle and antiparticle numbers are derived. For an interacting system we demonstrate how smooth decoherence effects are induced by collisions. As special applications we study the production of unstable particles during the preheating stage of the inflation and an evolution of an initially quantum $ho$ towards a statistical limit including decoherence and thermalisation.

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