Classical Statistical Mechanics and Landau Damping

Details Classical Statistical Mechanics and Landau Damping Classical Statistical Mechanics and Landau Damping

1997-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9705452v1

Phys.Lett. B407 (1997) 39-44

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

9 pages, 3 eps figures, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00746-6

We study the retarded response function in scalar $\phi^4$-theory at finite temperature. We find that in the high-temperature limit the imaginary part of the self-energy is given by the classical theory to leading order in the coupling. In particular the plasmon damping rate is a purely classical effect to leading order, as shown by Aarts and Smit. The dominant contribution to Landau damping is given by the propagation of classical fields in a heat bath of non-interacting fields.

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