Thermal Field Theories

H. Ezawa, T. Arimitsu, Yasushi Hashimoto

• Publisher: North Holland
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780444889034
• eBook ISBN:
  9780444598813
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

Theories of quantum fields at non-zero temperature have been steadily developed for well over a decade. In 1988, as a result of the increased demand for communication among theorists working in different fields ranging from condensed matter physics to high energy physics and astrophysics, the first international meeting was organized (the proceedings of which have been published in Physica A 158, 1989). This 2nd workshop covers similar fields, namely equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, quantum optics, high-temperature gauge-field theories, string theories, statistical theories of gravitation and cosmology. The resulting proceedings reflect the progress made in the respective fields, identify the major common problems and suggest possible directions for their solutions.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• PREFACE
• COMMITTEES
• Participants Photograph
• OPENING ADDRESS
• Chapter 1 EMERGING BROKEN SYMMETRY IN SPACE AND TIME
• Chapter 2 DERIVATIVE EXPANSION METHOD IN SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY THEORY
• Chapter 3 AN ANALOGICAL “THERMAL-FIELD” STRUCTURE FOR BIOLOGICAL SPACE-TIME
• Chapter 4 A Projection Operator Approach to Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics
• Chapter 5 RETARDED FORMULATION AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
• Chapter 6 EXTENSION OF THE THERMAL RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION BY THE THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS
• Chapter 7 Quantum Field Theory of Thermal Diffusion
• Chapter 8 RENORMALIZED DENSITY OF STATES IN CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES
• Chapter 9 Closed Time Path Green’s Function and Its Applications in Transport Theory
• Chapter 10 NON EQUILIBRIUM QUANTUM FIELDS IN COSMOLOGY
• Chapter 11 PERTURBATION THEORY IN EQUILIBRIUM AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM
• Chapter 12 Comparing graphs in the imaginary time and real time formalisms
• Chapter 13 FINITE-TEMPERATURE REACTION RATES AND THEIR INFRARED STRUCTURE
• Chapter 14 Origin of Non-Quantum Noise and Time Dependent Thermo Field Dynamics
• Chapter 15 DAMPING AND THERMAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
• Chapter 16 Thermal Coherent and Thermal Squeezed States
• Chapter 17 NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS AND THERMAL PROCESSES
• Chapter 18 A MICROSCOPIC THEORY OF DISSIPATIVE NUCLEAR COLLECTIVE MOTIONS
• Chapter 19 STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY
• Chapter 20 INCREASE OF COLLISION RATES NEAR PHASE INSTABILITY
• Chapter 21 TIME-DEPENDEDENT HARTREE-FOCK APPROACH TO MIXED STATES
• Chapter 22 STOCHASTIC QUANTUM GRAVITY—(2+1)-DIMENSIONAL CASE
• Chapter 23 Sphalerons and CP violation
• Chapter 24 Fluctuations and the Cosmic String Phase Transition
• Chapter 25 REGULARIZATION OF THERMAL STRING THEORIES
• Chapter 26 QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND MULTIPLICATIVE NUMBER THEORY
• Chapter 27 Thermal Effects on String Decay Rates and the Hagedorn Temperature
• Chapter 28 STRONGLY COUPLED QED ON A LATTICE
• Chapter 29 THE LATTICE TOPOLOGICAL GAUGE THEORY. CONSTRUCTION AND OBSERVABLES
• Chapter 30 LIGHT RELATIVISTIC BOUND STATES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE QCD
• Chapter 31 DO GLUONS CONDENSE AT FINITE TEMPERATURE?
• Chapter 32 CROSSING PROPERTIES OF PHOTON INTERACTIONS WITH QUARK-GLUON PLASMA AT FINITE TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY*
• Chapter 33 Gauge Independence of Plasma Parameters in Thermal Gauge Theories
• Chapter 34 A0, P and Deconfinement
• Chapter 35 CHIRAL ANOMALIES IN QED AND QCD AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
• Chapter 36 LEADING T3-BEHAVIOR AND VERTEX-CONFIGURATION DEPENDENCE OF REAL-TIME THERMAL QCD COUPLING
• Chapter 37 N-POINT FUNCTIONS IN IMAGINARY- AND REALTIME FINITE-TEMPERATURE FORMALISMS
• Chapter 38 A LOWER DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM AT FINITE TEMPERATURE — Applications of Improved 1/N Expansion —
• Chapter 39 A NEW ASPECT WITHIN NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
• Chapter 40 TRANSIENT RESONANT LIGHT SCATTERING FOR A LOCALIZED ELECTRON-PHONON SYSTEM WITHIN NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS1
• Chapter 41 A Calculational Scheme For Nonequilibrium Quantum Field System
• Chapter 42 CJT Effective Action on the Real Time Contour*
• Chapter 43 SPIN DEPOLARIZATION OF A QUANTUM PARTICLE; FERMIONIC PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH
• Chapter 44 STOCHASTIC LEARNING EQUATION IN A NEURAL FIELD
• Chapter 45 REGRESSION LAW OF FLUCTUATIONS AND SELF-SIMILARITY LAW AT A CRITICAL POINT IN DIFFUSION-REACTION PROCESSES
• Chapter 46 Parasupersymmetric Quantum Mechanics at Finite Temperature
• Chapter 47 NEW NON-EQUILIBRIUM REGIMES OF THE RESERVOIR MODEL
• Chapter 48 Rindler Noise in the Flat Spacetime with a Boundary
• Chapter 49 THE BLOCH-MESSIAH THEOREM FOR THE THERMAL HARTREE-FOCK-BOGOLIUBOV THEORY
• Chapter 50 ABOUT LONG RANGE PAIRING CORRELATIONS IN THE HUBBARD AND U-t-t’ MODELS
• Chapter 51 INFLATION INDUCED BY WORMHOLE
• Chapter 52 CAUSALITY IN FINITE TEMPERATURE QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
• Chapter 53 ANOMALOUS QED MAGNETIC MOMENT AT FINITE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL
• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
• AUTHOR INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX