Dissipation in equations of motion of scalar fields

Details Dissipation in equations of motion of scalar fields Dissipation in equations of motion of scalar fields

2002-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0209345v1

Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 045006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

17 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.045006

The methods of non-equilibrium quantum field theory are used to investigate the possibility of representing dissipation in the equation of motion for the expectation value of a scalar field by a friction term, such as is commonly included in phenomenological inflaton equations of motion. A sequence of approximations is exhibited which reduces the non-equilibrium theory to a set of local evolution equations. However, the adiabatic solution to these evolution equations which is needed to obtain a local equation of motion for the expectation value is not well defined; nor, therefore, is the friction coefficient. Thus, a non-equilibrium treatment is essential, even for a system that remains close to thermal equilibrium, and the formalism developed here provides one means of achieving this numerically.

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