Causal signal transmission by quantum fields. II: Quantum-statistical response of interacting bosons

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2007.11.014MaRDI QIDQ935115zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. I. Plimak, Stig Stenholm

Publication date 31 July 2008

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4091

zbMATH Keywords

phase-space methodsquantum field theoryquantum-statistical response problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: We analyse nonperturbatively signal transmission patterns in Green's functions of interacting quantum fields. Quantum field theory is re-formulated in terms of the nonlinear quantum-statistical response of the field. This formulation applies equally to interacting relativistic fields and nonrelativistic models. Of crucial importance is that all causality properties to be expected of a response formulation indeed hold. Being by construction equivalent to Schwinger's closed-time-loop formalism, this formulation is also shown to be related naturally to both Kubo's linear response and Glauber's macroscopic photodetection theories, being a unification of the two with generalisation to the nonlinear quantum-statistical response problem. In this paper we introduce response formulation of bosons; response reformulation of fermions will be subject of a separate paper.

Review text

This is a paper of physics. Based on their previous result for the free quantum field theory as well as the harmonic oscillator in \textit{L. I. Plimak} and \textit{S. Stenholm} [Ann. Phys. 323, No. 8, 1963--1988 (2008; Zbl 1251.81052)], the authors of the paper present the response formulation for interacting boson quantum field theories, using Schwinger's closed-time-loop. They argue the re-derivation of the Kubo's formula and the relation between operator non-commutativity and response, and so on. Explicit causality is also given in this formulation.

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