The effective potential as an energy density: The one phase region

DOI10.1007/BF01211065MaRDI QIDQ1083776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gordon Slade

Publication date 1986

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01211065

zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremeffective potentialquantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Review text

An explicit formula is given relating the effective potential in a finite volume \(P(\phi)_ 2\) quantum field theory to the expected energy density under the constraint of a fixed average field. In the one phase region, i.e., where the classical potential equals its convex hull and has nonvanishing second derivative, it is shown via a central limit theorem that in the infinite volume limit the effective potential is equal to the constrained energy density, provided \(\hslash\) is sufficiently small.

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