Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-05-07
Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 1026-1046
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
REVTeX, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.1026
We discuss the classical limit for the long-distance (``soft'') modes of a quantum field when the hard modes of the field are in thermal equilibrium. We address the question of the correct semiclassical dynamics when a momentum cut-off is introduced. Higher order contributions leads to a stochastic interpretation for the effective action in analogy to Quantum Brownian Motion, resulting in dissipation and decoherence for the evolution of the soft modes. Particular emphasis is put on the understanding of dissipation. Our discussion focuses mostly on scalar fields, but we make some remarks on the extension to gauge theories.
Greiner Carsten
Müller Berndt
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