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Modal expansions and non-perturbative quantum field theory in Minkowski space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We introduce a spectral approach to non-perturbative field theory within the periodic field formalism. As an example we calculate the real and imaginary parts of the propagator in 1+1 dimensional phi^4 theory, identifying both one-particle and multi-particle contributions. We discuss the computational limits of existing diagonalization algorithms and suggest new quasi-sparse eigenvector methods to handle very large Fock spaces and higher dimensional field theories.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9910103,
  title  = {Modal expansions and non-perturbative quantum field theory in Minkowski space},
  author = {Nathan Salwen and Dean Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9910103},
  year   = {2009}
}

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new material added, 12 pages, 6 figures