Partition function for a singular background

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.02.010zbMATH Open1247.81305arXivhep-th/0412156OpenAlexW2032535884MaRDI QIDQ451631FDOQ451631

J. J. McKenzie-Smith, Wade Naylor

Publication date: 23 September 2012

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

Abstract: We present a method for evaluating the partition function in a varying external field. Specifically, we look at the case of a non-interacting, charged, massive scalar field at finite temperature with an associated chemical potential in the background of a delta-function potential. Whilst we present a general method, valid at all temperatures, we only give the result for the leading order term in the high temperature limit. Although the derivative expansion breaks down for inhomogeneous backgrounds we are able to obtain the high temperature expansion, as well as an analytic expression for the zero point energy, by way of a different approximation scheme, which we call the {it local Born approximation} (LBA).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412156

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zbMATH Keywords

finite temperature field theoryquantum fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16)

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