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Random Phase Approximation and Extensions Applied to a Bosonic Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

An application of a self-consistent version of RPA to quantum field theory with broken symmetry is presented. Although our approach can be applied to any bosonic field theory, we specifically study the ϕ4\phi^4 theory in 1+1 dimensions. We show that standard RPA approach leads to an instability which can be removed when going to a superior version,i.e. the renormalized RPA. We present a method based on the so-called charging formula of the many electron problem to calculate the correlation energy and the RPA effective potential.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0201279,
  title  = {Random Phase Approximation and Extensions Applied to a Bosonic Field Theory},
  author = {H. Hansen and G. Chanfray and D. Davesne and P. Schuck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0201279},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

30 pages, LaTeX file, 10 figures included, final version accepted in EPJA

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