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A theoretical scheme, based on a probabilistic generalization of the Hamilton's principle, is elaborated to obtain an unified description of more general dynamical behaviors determined both from a lagrangian function and by mechanisms not…

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Hamilton's principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton's principle has a subtle pitfall that often…

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This is mainly a brief review of some key achievements in a `hot'' area of theoretical and mathematical physics. The principal aim is to outline the basic structures underlying {\em integrable} quantum field theory models with {\em…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

Conventional wisdom holds that macroscopic classical phenomena naturally emerge from microscopic quantum laws. However, despite this mantra, building direct connections between these two descriptions has remained an enduring scientific…

We discuss how continuous probing of a quantum system allows estimation of unknown classical parameters embodied in the Hamiltonian of the system. We generalize the stochastic master equation associated with continuous observation processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Antonio Negretti , Klaus Mølmer

For a high temperature non-Abelian plasma, we reformulate the hard thermal loop approximation as an effective classical thermal field theory for the soft modes. The effective theory is written in local Hamiltonian form, and the thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Edmond Iancu

An equilibrium theory of classical fluids based on the space distribution among the particles is derived in the framework of the energy minimization method. This study is motivated by current difficulties of evaluation of optical properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. D. Rohrmann

We propose a system of equations to describe the interaction of a quasiclassical variable $X$ with a set of quantum variables $x$ that goes beyond the usual mean field approximation. The idea is to regard the quantum system as continuously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Diosi , J. J. Halliwell

A framework for statistical-mechanical analysis of quantum Hamiltonians is introduced. The approach is based upon a gradient flow equation in the space of Hamiltonians such that the eigenvectors of the initial Hamiltonian evolve toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Dorje C. Brody , David C. P. Ellis , Darryl D. Holm

We develop a formalism to describe the formation of bound states in quantum field theory using an exact renormalization group flow equation. As a concrete example we investigate a nonrelativistic field theory with instantaneous interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-04 S. Floerchinger

We consider the low-energy effective field theory describing the infrared dynamics of non-dissipative fluids. We extend previous work to accommodate conserved charges, and we clarify the matching between field theory variables and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-23 Sergei Dubovsky , Lam Hui , Alberto Nicolis , Dam Thanh Son

A unified formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference in both the classical and the quantum regimes. The theory is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-20 Ahmad Yousefi

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

We present an effective potential that allows quantum thermal expectation values of a position-dependent observable to be estimated as a classical ensemble average of the corresponding function. We follow the approach of Feynman and Hibbs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam , Stuart C. Althorpe , Venkat Kapil

A notorious difficulty in the covariant dynamics of classical charged particles subject to non-local electromagnetic (EM) interactions arising in the EM radiation-reaction (RR) phenomena is due to the definition of the related non-local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 Claudio Cremaschini , Massimo Tessarotto

We consider the spectral correlations of clean globally hyperbolic (chaotic) quantum systems. Field theoretical methods are applied to compute quantum corrections to the leading (`diagonal') contribution to the spectral form factor.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Müller , Alexander Altland

The present article introduces a generalization of the (multisymplectic) Hamiltonian field theory for a Lagrangian density, allowing the formulation of this kind of field theories for variational problem of more general nature than those…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guadalupe Quijón , Santiago Capriotti

We give a detailed exposition of the formalism of Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) with emphasis on the perturbative determination of observables. KFT is a statistical non-equilibrium classical field theory based on the path integral formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shayan Hemmatyar , Stefan Zentarra

This review paper is devoted to presenting the standard multisymplectic formulation for describing geometrically classical field theories, both the regular and singular cases. First, the main features of the Lagrangian formalism are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Narciso Román-Roy

Using the collective variables (CV) method the basic relations of statistical field theory of a multicomponent non-homogeneous fluids are reconsidered. The corresponding CV action depends on two sets of scalar fields - fields…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-02 Oksana Patsahan , Ihor Mryglod , Jean-Michel Caillol