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Employing the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we formulate an effective field theory for s-wave superconducting phase transition, where the dynamical variables consist of electromagnetic gauge field and complex scalar order parameter.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Yanyan Bu , Zexin Yang

We construct a discrete model of fluid particles according to the GENERIC formalism. The model has the form of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics including correct thermal fluctuations. A slight variation of the model reproduces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pep Español , Hans Christian Öttinger

We formulate the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory of hydrodynamics without boost symmetry. This includes a spacetime covariant formulation of classical hydrodynamics without boosts with an additional conserved particle/charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Jay Armas , Akash Jain

Stochastic field theories are often constructed phenomenologically, without a systematic assessment of thermodynamic consistency or local detailed balance. This may hinder a physical description of irreversibility at the field-theoretic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew

We study Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theories (EFTs) for systems with non-Abelian internal symmetries near thermal equilibrium. We consider two approaches that were put forward in the literature -- one using a redundant Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Eren Firat , Andrew Gomes , Filippo Nardi , Riccardo Penco , Riccardo Rattazzi

As in the preceding paper we aim at identifying the effective theory that describes the fluctuations of the local overlap with an equilibrium reference configuration close to a putative thermodynamic glass transition. We focus here on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 G. Biroli , C. Cammarota , G. Tarjus , M. Tarzia

The equations of fluid motions are considered in the case of internal energy depending on mass density, volume entropy and their spatial derivatives. The model corresponds to domains with large density gradients in which the temperature is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-27 Henri Gouin

Hydro-kinetic theory of thermal fluctuations is applied to a non-conformal relativistic fluid. Solving the hydro-kinetic equations for an isotropically expanding background we find that hydrodynamic fluctuations give ultraviolet divergent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-21 Yukinao Akamatsu , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Derek Teaney

Starting from the microscopic description of a normal fluid in terms of any kind of local interacting many-particle theory we present a well defined step by step procedure to derive the hydrodynamic equations for the macroscopic phenomena.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-10 Rudolf Haussmann

We present an effective field theory approach to the topological response of Floquet systems with symmetry group $G$. This is achieved by introducing a background $G$ gauge field in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, which is suitable for far…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-17 Paolo Glorioso , Andrey Gromov , Shinsei Ryu

The postulational basis of classical thermodynamics has been expanded to incorporate equilibrium fluctuations. The main additional elements of the proposed thermodynamic theory are the concept of quasi-equilibrium states, a definition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-11 Y. Mishin

The relationships between reversible Carnot cycles, the absence of perpetual motion machines and the existence of a non-decreasing, globally unique entropy function forms the starting point of many textbook presentations of the foundations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. J. E. Maroney

We propose new ideal hydrodynamics in the function space which describes a fluid composed of the 1+1 dimensional real scalar field in the framework of the stochastic variational method (SVM). In the derivation, the thermal equilibrium is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-23 T. Koide , T. Kodama

We analyze the validity of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem for slow relaxation systems in the context of mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We demonstrate that the violation arises as a natural consequence of the elimination of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Perez-Madrid , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi

Bose gas in a random external field is considered. The sigma model like effective action both for weak and strong random fields compared with the interaction between particles is derived by averaging over the random field and integration…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-05 A. Babichenko , V. Babichenko

Starting from a microscopic model of liquids, we construct an effective theory of an overlap field through duplication of the system and coarse-graining. We then propose a recipe to extract a relaxation time and two characteristic length…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-07-25 Sho Yaida

We present a comprehensive study of hydrodynamic theories for superfluids with dipole symmetry. Taking diffusion as an example, we systematically construct a hydrodynamic framework that incorporates an intrinsic dipole degree of freedom in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Aleksander Głódkowski , Francisco Peña-Benítez , Piotr Surówka

We construct a gravitational open extension of the effective field theory of inflation in the Schwinger-Keldysh framework. While physical symmetries allow many open operators in the Schwinger-Keldysh action, most of them overconstrain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Perseas Christodoulidis , Jinn-Ouk Gong

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

Open effective field theories provide a systematic framework for describing systems coupled to an environment, where dissipation, noise, and modified conservation laws naturally arise. Working within the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Perseas Christodoulidis