Real-time corrections to the effective potential

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)096zbMATH Open1437.81056arXiv1905.00219MaRDI QIDQ779359FDOQ779359

John Stout, Guilherme L. Pimentel

Publication date: 21 July 2020

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

Abstract: Non-perturbatively generated effective potentials play an extremely useful and often critical role in string and inflationary model building. These potentials are typically computed by methods that assume the system is in equilibrium. For systems out of equilibrium, like an inflaton rolling down its potential, there are corrections to the semi-classical evolution due to transient phenomena. We provide a new qualitative and quantitative understanding of non-perturbative effects in real time for a wide class of toy quantum mechanical models. We derive an effective Schr"{o}dinger equation that does not rely on any notion of equilibrium and captures the low-energy dynamics supposedly described by the effective potential. We find that there are potentially large corrections to this potential that are not captured by standard equilibrium techniques, and quantify when these corrections significantly alter the effective dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00219

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensionsnonperturbative effectssolitons monopoles and instantonsdiscrete symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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