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The search for the conjectured QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions requires to account for far-from equilibrium effects as well as fluctuations, and in particular non-Gaussian fluctuations, in the modeling of the dynamics of the hot…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Navid Abbasi , Dirk H. Rischke

We present all the periodic Green function dyadics that enter a description of a 2d array of emitters at the level that includes the electric dipole, magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moment of each emitter. We find a concise analytic…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-02 Sylvia D. Swiecicki , J. E. Sipe

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

This paper is devoted to the study and interpretation of the spectral function $\mathbf{A}(\omega, T)$ of the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function. The spatial diagonal of the spectral function is often interpreted as a time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

Within a light-cone QCD formalism based on the Green function technique incorporating color transparency and coherence length effects we study nuclear shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering at moderately small Bjorken x_{Bj}. Calculations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Nemchik

The thesis developed by Cornelius Lanczos in his doctoral dissertation is that electrodynamics is a pure field theory which is hyperanalytic over the algebra of biquaternions. In this theory Maxwell's homogeneous equations correspond to a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cornelius Lanczos

Half a century ago, Ihor Yukhnovskii elaborated a method of studying the critical point of the three-dimensional Ising model based on a layer-by-layer integration in the space of collective variables. His method was an alternative to that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-29 Yu. Kozitsky

Now that we have reached the centennial of Erwin Schrodinger's seminal paper introducing the wavefunction theory of matter, it is right and proper to inquire as to its legacy. It is undeniable that today every paper in atomic physics cites…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 W. David Wick

A relativistic analytical theory of strong field ionization applicable across the regimes of the deep-tunneling up to the over-barrier ionization (OTBI) is developed, incorporating the effects of the polarization of the atomic bound state…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

This work brings together Keldysh non-equilibrium quantum theory and thermodynamics, by showing that a real-time diagrammatic technique is an equivalent of stochastic thermodynamics for non-Markovian quantum machines (heat engines,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Robert S. Whitney

We perform a perturbative analysis for the nonequilibrium Green functions of the spinless Falicov-Kimball model in the presence of an arbitrary external time-dependent but spatially uniform electric field. The conduction electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Turkowski , J. K. Freericks

We study the out-of-equilibrium current through an interacting quantum dot modelled as an Anderson impurity contacted by two BCS superconductors held at fixed voltage bias. In order to account for multiple Andreev reflections, we develop a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-26 L. Dell'Anna , A. Zazunov , R. Egger

Precise predictions of atomic energy levels require the use of QED, especially in highly-charged ions, where the inner electrons have relativistic velocities. We present an overview of the two-time Green's function method; this method…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. -O. Le Bigot , P. Indelicato , V. M. Shabaev

Different non-equilibrium situations have recently been considered when studying the thermal Casimir--Polder interaction with a body. We show that the Keldysh Green function method provides a very general common framework for such studies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Yury Sherkunov , Stefan Y. Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

The Green's function has been an indispensable tool to study many-body systems that remain one of the biggest challenges in modern quantum physics for decades. The complicated calculation of Green's function impedes the research of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Jie Zhu , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo , Yong-Sheng Zhang

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yakov Zel'dovich. Amongst his many legacies is the Zel'dovich approximation for the growth of large-scale structure, which remains one of the most successful and insightful analytic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin White

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based full ab initio description of the central region of the junction combined with a tight…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schnurpfeil , Bo Song , Martin Albrecht

We recount the successful long career of classical physics, from Newton to Einstein, which was based on the philosophy of scientific realism. Special emphasis is given to the changing status and number of ontological entitities and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2008-05-16 Virendra Singh

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

Starting with Einstein's famous papers of 1905, we review some of the ensuing developments and their impact on present-day physics. We attempt to cover topics that are of interest to historians and philosophers of science as well as to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Domenico Giulini , Norbert Straumann