Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-01-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Doctoral thesis. 170 pages, 47 figures. Some references and comments added. Minor errors corrected. 1 figure added
Scientific paper
This work is devoted to the study of relaxation--dissipation processes in systems described by Quantum Field Theory. In the first part, I focus on the phi^4 scalar quantum field theory in finite volume in the large N limit. I find that the zero-mode quantum fluctuations cannot grow macroscopically large starting from microscopic initial conditions, while the long-wavelength fluctuations do scale with the linear size of the system, signalling dynamical infrared properties quite different from the equilibrium ones. I also introduce a non-gaussian Hartree-Fock approximation (tdHF) and I derive the mean-field coupled time-dependent Schroedinger equations for the modes of the scalar field. The dynamical evolution of a uniform condensate is studied in a further controlled gaussian approximation, for N=1. Results similar to the large N case show an internal inconsistency of this approximation. I also study the dynamics of the system in infinite volume in the broken symmetry phase. The data show that the fixed points of the evolution cover at most the classically metastable part of the static effective potential. I finally study the dynamical evolution for the O(N+1) nonlinear sigma model in 1+1 dimensions in the large N limit. I first of all verify that the large coupling limit of the O(N+1) phi^4 model, which renders the model non linear, commutes with the large N limit, so that the O(infty) nonlinear sigma model is uniquely defined. I then study the evolution of several observables, like the spectrum of produced particles, finding no evidence for parametric resonance. I conclude with some remarks on the ``state of art'' in gauge theories and some comments about the open issues in the subject.
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