Partition function for a singular background

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.02.010MaRDI QIDQ451631zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. J. McKenzie-Smith, Wade Naylor

Publication date 23 September 2012

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

finite temperature field theoryquantum fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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).

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