Semiclassical thermodynamics of scalar fields

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/007MaRDI QIDQ896311zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 9 December 2015

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

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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.

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