Large-N kinetic theory for highly occupied systems
We consider an effective kinetic description for quantum many-body systems, which is not based on a weak-coupling or diluteness expansion. Instead, it employs an expansion in the number of field components N of the underlying scalar quantum field theory. Extending previous studies, we demonstrate th...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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12 June 2018
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Physical review
Year: 2018, Volume: 97, Issue: 11 |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.116011 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.116011 Verlag, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.116011 
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| Author Notes: | R. Walz, K. Boguslavski, and J. Berges |
| Summary: | We consider an effective kinetic description for quantum many-body systems, which is not based on a weak-coupling or diluteness expansion. Instead, it employs an expansion in the number of field components N of the underlying scalar quantum field theory. Extending previous studies, we demonstrate that the large-N kinetic theory at next-to-leading order is able to describe important aspects of highly occupied systems, which are beyond standard perturbative kinetic approaches. We analyze the underlying quasiparticle dynamics by computing the effective scattering matrix elements analytically and solve numerically the large-N kinetic equation for a highly occupied system far from equilibrium. This allows us to compute the universal scaling form of the distribution function at an infrared nonthermal fixed point within a kinetic description, and we compare to existing lattice field theory simulation results. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 08.12.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.116011 |