Effective potential for the massless KPZ equation

Details Effective potential for the massless KPZ equation Effective potential for the massless KPZ equation

1999-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904391v1

Physica A280 (2000) 437-455

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, LaTeX 209, ReV_TeX 3.2, three *.eps figures, epsf.sty

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00611-1

In previous work we have developed a general method for casting a classical field theory subject to Gaussian noise (that is, a stochastic partial differential equation--SPDE) into a functional integral formalism that exhibits many of the properties more commonly associated with quantum field theories (QFTs). In particular, we demonstrated how to derive the one-loop effective potential. In this paper we apply the formalism to a specific field theory of considerable interest, the massless KPZ equation (massless noisy vorticity-free Burgers equation), and analyze its behaviour in the ultraviolet (short-distance) regime. When this field theory is subject to white noise we can calculate the one-loop effective potential and show that it is one-loop ultraviolet renormalizable in 1, 2, and 3 space dimensions, and fails to be ultraviolet renormalizable in higher dimensions. We show that the one-loop effective potential for the massless KPZ equation is closely related to that for lambda phi^4 QFT. In particular we prove that the massless KPZ equation exhibits one-loop dynamical symmetry breaking (via an analog of the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism) in 1 and 2 space dimensions, and that this behaviour does not persist in 3 space dimensions.

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