Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-09-29
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 085038
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Discussion on new dynamical universality class. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.085038
The perturbative approach to the description of long wavelength excitations at high temperature breaks down near the critical point of a second order phase transition. We study the \emph{dynamics} of these excitations in a relativistic scalar field theory at and near the critical point via a renormalization group approach at high temperature and an $\epsilon$ expansion in $d=5-\epsilon$ space-time dimensions. The long wavelength physics is determined by a non-trivial fixed point of the renormalization group. At the critical point we find that the dispersion relation and width of quasiparticles of momentum $p$ is $\omega_p \sim p^{z}$ and $\Gamma_p \sim (z-1) \omega_p$ respectively, the group velocity of quasiparticles $v_g \sim p^{z-1}$ vanishes in the long wavelength limit at the critical point. Away from the critical point for $T\gtrsim T_c$ we find $\omega_p \sim \xi^{-z}[1+(p \xi)^{2z}]^{{1/2}}$ and $\Gamma_p \sim (z-1) \omega_p \frac{(p \xi)^{2z}}{1+(p \xi)^{2z}}$ with $\xi$ the finite temperature correlation length $ \xi \propto |T-T_c|^{-\nu}$. The new \emph{dynamical} exponent $z$ results from anisotropic renormalization in the spatial and time directions. For a theory with O(N) symmetry we find $z=1+ \epsilon \frac{N+2}{(N+8)^2}+\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$. Critical slowing down, i.e, a vanishing width in the long-wavelength limit, and the validity of the quasiparticle picture emerge naturally from this analysis.
Boyanovsky Daniel
de Vega Hector J.
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