Semiclassical thermodynamics of scalar fields

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/007zbMATH Open1326.81120arXiv0705.1531OpenAlexW2171180266MaRDI QIDQ896311FDOQ896311

Carlos Alberto Aragao de Carvalho, François Gelis, Andre Bessa, Eduardo Souza Fraga

Publication date: 9 December 2015

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

Abstract: We present a systematic semiclassical procedure to compute the partition function for scalar field theories at finite temperature. The central objects in our scheme are the solutions of the classical equations of motion in imaginary time, with spatially independent boundary conditions. Field fluctuations -- both field deviations around these classical solutions, and fluctuations of the boundary value of the fields -- are resummed in a Gaussian approximation. In our final expression for the partition function, this resummation is reduced to solving certain ordinary differential equations. Moreover, we show that it is renormalizable with the usual 1-loop counterterms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1531

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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