Wigner Functionals and their Dynamics in Quantum-Field-Theory

Details Wigner Functionals and their Dynamics in Quantum-Field-Theory Wigner Functionals and their Dynamics in Quantum-Field-Theory

1997-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703105v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

23 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

We reformulate time evolution of systems in mixed states in terms of the classical observables of correlators using the Weyl correspondence rule. The resulting equation of motion for the Wigner functional of the density matrix is found to be of the Liouville type. To illustrate the methods developed, we explicitly consider a scalar theory with quartic self-interaction and derive the short time behaviour with the non-interacting thermal density matrix as initial condition. In the scalar case, the complete correlator hierarchy is studied and restrictions are derived for spatially homogeneous initial conditions and systems with unbroken symmetry.

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