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We outline a universal Schwinger-Keldysh effective theory which describes macroscopic thermal fluctuations of a relativistic field theory. The basic ingredients of our construction are three: a doubling of degrees of freedom, an emergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

We construct a Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory for relativistic hydrodynamics for charged matter in a thermal background using a superspace formalism. Superspace allows us to efficiently impose the symmetries of the problem and to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Kristan Jensen , Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva , Amos Yarom

A new effective theory framework for fluctuating hydrodynamics in the relativistic regime is derived using standard thermodynamical principles and general properties of non-equilibrium stochastic dynamics. For the first time, we establish…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Nicki Mullins , Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha

Active matter concerns many-body systems comprised of living or self-driven agents that collectively exhibit macroscopic phenomena distinct from conventional passive matter. Using Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory, we develop a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Jay Armas , Akash Jain , Ruben Lier

Thermal fluctuations are a fundamental feature of dissipative systems that are essential for understanding physics near the expected critical point of QCD and in small systems. When such fluctuations are modeled naively in relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Nicki Mullins , Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha

We construct stable and causal effective field theories (EFTs) for describing statistical fluctuations in relativistic diffusion and relativistic hydrodynamics. These EFTs are fully non-linear, including couplings to background sources, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-04 Akash Jain , Pavel Kovtun

We argue that entropy production in hydrodynamics can be understood via a superspace inflow mechanism. Our arguments are based on a recently developed formalism for constructing effective actions for Schwinger-Keldysh observables in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-08 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

We develop a Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory describing the hydrodynamics of a fluid with conserved charge and dipole moments, together with conserved momentum. The resulting hydrodynamic modes are highly unusual, including sound…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Paolo Glorioso , Xiaoyang Huang , Jinkang Guo , Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva , Andrew Lucas

In this paper we further develop the fluctuating hydrodynamics proposed in arXiv:1511.03646 in a number of ways. We first work out in detail the classical limit of the hydrodynamical action, which exhibits many simplifications. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Paolo Glorioso , Michael Crossley , Hong Liu

We develop a hydrodynamic effective field theory on the Schwinger-Keldysh contour for fluids with charge, energy, and momentum conservation, but only discrete rotational symmetry. The consequences of anisotropy on thermodynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-16 Xiaoyang Huang , Andrew Lucas

We study one-loop corrections to retarded and symmetric hydrostatic correlation functions within the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory framework for relativistic hydrodynamics, focusing on charge diffusion. We first consider the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-25 Akash Jain , Pavel Kovtun , Adam Ritz , Ashish Shukla

With the goal of deriving dissipative hydrodynamics from an action, we study classical actions for open systems, which follow from the generic structure of effective actions in the Schwinger-Keldysh Closed-Time-Path formalism with two time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sašo Grozdanov , Janos Polonyi

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 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

Causality is necessary for retarded Green's functions to remain retarded in all inertial frames in relativity, which ensures that dissipation of fluctuations is a Lorentz invariant concept. For first-order BDNK theories with stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-04 Nicki Mullins , Mauricio Hippert , Lorenzo Gavassino , Jorge Noronha

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

Inspired by the hunt for new phases of matter in quantum mixed states, it has recently been proposed that the equivalence of microcanonical and canonical ensembles in statistical mechanics is a manifestation of strong-to-weak spontaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-21 Xiaoyang Huang , Marvin Qi , Jian-Hao Zhang , Andrew Lucas

We argue that an effective field theory of local fluid elements captures the constraints on hydrodynamic transport stemming from the presence of quantum anomalies in the underlying microscopic theory. Focussing on global current anomalies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

We write down a Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory for non-relativistic (Galilean) hydrodynamics. We use the null background construction to covariantly couple Galilean field theories to a set of background sources. In this language,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Akash Jain

We develop an effective field theory for dissipative fluids which governs the dynamics of long-lived gapless modes associated with conserved quantities. The resulting theory gives a path integral formulation of fluctuating hydrodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-30 Michael Crossley , Paolo Glorioso , Hong Liu
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