Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-12-04
Prog.Theor.Phys. 102 (1999) 313-332
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
31 pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses ptptex.sty
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTP.102.313
Mean field theory for the time evolution of quantum meson fields is studied in terms of the functional Schroedinger picture with a time-dependent Gaussian variational wave functional. We first show that the equations of motion for the variational wavefunctional can be rewritten in a compact form similar to the Hartree-Bogoliubov equations in quantum many-body theory and this result is used to recover the covariance of the theory. We then apply this method to the O(N) model and present analytic solutions of the mean field evolution equations for an N-component scalar field. These solutions correspond to quantum rotations in isospin space and represent generalizations of the classical solutions obtained earlier by Anselm and Ryskin. As compared to classical solutions new effects arise because of the coupling between the average value of the field and its quantum fluctuations. We show how to generalize these solutions to the case of mean field dynamics at finite temperature. The relevance of these solutions for the observation of a coherent collective state or a disoriented chiral condensate in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions is discussed.
Matsui Takafumi
Tsue Yasuhiko
Vautherin Dominique
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