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Nonperturbative calculation of symmetry breaking in quantum field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-30 v1

Abstract

A new version of the delta expansion is presented, which, unlike the conventional delta expansion, can be used to do nonperturbative calculations in a self-interacting scalar quantum field theory having broken symmetry. We calculate the expectation value of the scalar field to first order in delta, where delta is a measure of the degree of nonlinearity in the interaction term.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608048,
  title  = {Nonperturbative calculation of symmetry breaking in quantum field theory},
  author = {Carl M. Bender and Kimball A. Milton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608048},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, no figures, REVTeX