Discrete-time construction of nonequilibrium path integrals on the Kostantinov-Perel' time contour
Abstract
Rigorous nonequilibrium actions for the many-body problem are usually derived by means of path integrals combined with a discrete temporal mesh on the Schwinger-Keldysh time contour. The latter suffers from a fundamental limitation: the initial state on this contour cannot be arbitrary, but necessarily needs to be described by a non-interacting density matrix, while interactions are switched on adiabatically. The Kostantinov-Perel' contour overcomes these and other limitations, allowing generic initial-state preparations. In this Article, we apply the technique of the discrete temporal mesh to rigorously build the nonequilibrium path integral on the Kostantinov-Perel' time contour.
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@article{arxiv.1704.01392,
title = {Discrete-time construction of nonequilibrium path integrals on the Kostantinov-Perel' time contour},
author = {Andrea Secchi and Marco Polini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01392},
year = {2019}
}
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