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We present a detailed and self-contained analysis of the universal Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory which describes macroscopic thermal fluctuations of a relativistic field theory, elaborating on our earlier construction in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-01 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

Different models are described where non-interacting particles generate dissipative effective forces by the mixing of infinitely many soft normal modes. The effective action is calculated for these models within the Closed Time Path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-16 Janos Polonyi

We formulate a stochastic generalisation of the Schwinger effect, extending pair production to statistically fluctuating gauge-field backgrounds. Our approach captures realistic field configurations that are transient, inhomogeneous, and…

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A two-dimensional lattice system of non-interacting electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field with half a flux quantum per plaquette and a random potential is considered. For the large scale behavior a supersymmetric theory with collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Ziegler

We define a sigma model with doubled target space and calculate its background field equations. These coincide with generalised metric equation of motion of double field theory, thus the double field theory is the effective field theory for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-27 Neil B. Copland

We characterize the dynamic non-equilibrium steady state behavior of active particles using density fluctuations in the system. We analyze the effective local density around a particle in the steady state and numerically calculate its mean,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jayam Joshi , Pawan Kumar Mishra , Shradha Mishra

In many scenarios of interest, a quantum system interacts with an unknown environment, necessitating the use of open quantum system methods to capture dissipative effects and environmental noise. With the long-term goal of developing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Santiago Agui Salcedo , Thomas Colas , Enrico Pajer

A system of fermions with short-range interactions at finite density is studied using the framework of effective field theory. The effective action formalism for fermions with auxiliary fields leads to a loop expansion in which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Furnstahl , H. -W. Hammer

Strong-field quantum-state control is investigated, taking advantage of the full---amplitude and phase---characterization of the interaction between matter and intense ultrashort pulses via transient-absorption spectroscopy. A sequence of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Stefano M. Cavaletto , Zoltán Harman , Thomas Pfeifer , Christoph H. Keitel

The large N effective action of the non-linear sigma model based in the coset O(N+1)/O(N) is obtained. The renormalization of this effective action requires the introduction of an infinite set of counterterms. However, there exit particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Antonio Dobado , Antonio Lopez , John Morales

We construct a nonlinear $\sigma$ model to describe a system of non-interacting electrons propagating in the presence of random magnetic flux. We find a term describing the long ranged logarithmic interaction between the topological density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Shoucheng Zhang , Daniel Arovas

Quantum entanglement phase transitions have provided new insights to quantum many-body dynamics. Both disorders and measurements are found to induce similar entanglement transitions. Here, we provide a theoretical framework that unifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Qinghong Yang , Yi Zuo , Dong E. Liu

Recent developments in generalized symmetries have provided new insights into quantum field theories. Within this framework, photons can be understood as Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with a spontaneously broken higher-form symmetry. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Genki Yoshimura , Yukinao Akamatsu , Yuji Hirono

We derive Ginzburg-Landau action by systematically integrating out electronic degrees of freedom in the framework of the Keldysh nonlinear sigma-model of disordered superconductors. The resulting Ginzburg-Landau functional contains a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Levchenko , Alex Kamenev

Semiclassical techniques have proven to be a very powerful method to extract physical effects from different quantum theories. Therefore, it is expected that in the near future they will play a very prominent role in the context of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-17 David Brizuela

It is well known that some quantum and statistical fluctuations of a quantum field may be recovered by adding suitable stochastic sources to the mean field equations derived from the Schwinger-Keldysh (Closed-time-path) effective action. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-23 Esteban Calzetta

Using a new scheme of the derivation of the non-linear $\sigma$-model we consider the electron motion in a random magnetic field (RMF) in two dimensions. The derivation is based on writing quasiclassical equations and representing their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. B. Efetov , V. R. Kogan

For large values of the Higgs boson mass the low energy structure of the gauged linear sigma model in the spontaneously broken phase can adequately be described by an effective field theory. In this work we present a manifestly gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Nyffeler , A. Schenk

An indication of spontaneous symmetry breaking is found in the two-dimensional $\lambda\phi^4$ model, where attention is paid to the functional form of an effective action. An effective energy, which is an effective action for a static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Takanori Sugihara

The multi-Regge effective action is derived directly from the linearized gravity action. After excluding the redundant field components we separate the fields into momentum modes and integrate over modes which correspond neither to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Kirschner , L. Szymanowski