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We develop a quantum dynamical field theory for studying phase transitions in driven open systems coupled to Markovian noise, where non-linear noise effects and fluctuations beyond semiclassical approximations influence the critical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-07 Jamir Marino , Sebastian Diehl

This paper gives an introduction to the Keldysh formalism, with emphasis on its usefulness in time-dependent density functional theory. In the first part we introduce the Keldysh contour and the one-particle Green function defined on this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert van Leeuwen , Nils Erik Dahlen , Gianluca Stefanucci , Carl-Olof Almbladh , Ulf von Barth

Quadratic Lindbladians encompass a rich class of dissipative electronic and bosonic quantum systems, which have been predicted to host new and exotic physics. In this study, we develop a Lindblad-Keldysh spectroscopic response formalism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Spenser Talkington , Martin Claassen

Negative differential thermal conductance (NDTC), a hallmark of nonlinear quantum thermal transport, plays a critical role in the design of quantum thermal devices such as thermal diodes and transistors. The Lindblad dynamics predicts that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Zi-chen Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

We establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for systems subjected to a static uniform temperature gradient, employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh-Dyson formalism. This framework interprets the statistical force due to the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Luqman Saleem , Udo Schwingenschlogl , Aurelien Manchon

A theoretical frame for two-photon photoemission is derived from the general theory of pump-probe photoemission, assuming that not only the probe but also the pump pulse is sufficiently weak. This allows us to use a perturbative approach to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 J. Braun , R. Rausch , M. Potthoff , H. Ebert

It is shown how to construct Keldysh diagram technique for pseudo - particle approach to the Hubbard model. We propose self consistent equations for pseudo particle and electron Green functions in Keldysh diagram technique. Nonlocal effects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-27 P. I. Arseyev , N. S. Maslova

We study perturbative Wilsonian renormalisation group (RG) for the scalar $\phi^4$ theory at finite temperature to one loop order in the Schwinger-Keldysh closed-time-path (CTP) formalism. By explicitly integrating out the UV modes, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Giorgio Frangi , Sašo Grozdanov

We study the holographic dual of two-point correlation functions for nonconformal field theories. We first take into account a Lifshitz geometry as the dual of a Lifshitz field theory which may appear at a critical or IR fixed point. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Chanyong Park

We perform the large-$N$ expansion in the Schwinger-Keldysh formulation of non-equilibrium quantum systems with matrix degrees of freedom, and study universal features of the anticipated dual string theory. We find a rich refinement of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Petr Horava , Christopher J. Mogni

In this work, we investigate higher-derivative quantum field theories and the problem of Ostrogradsky instability within an open-system Keldysh-Lindblad framework. Coupling the ghost sector to dissipative baths generates non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Y. M. P. Gomes

Large $N$ conformal field theories often admit unitary renormalization group flows triggered by double-trace deformations. We compute the change in scalar four-point functions under double-trace flow, to leading order in $1/N$. This has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Simone Giombi , Vladimir Kirilin , Eric Perlmutter

The Schwinger-Keldysh functional renormalization group (fRG) developed in [1] is employed to investigate critical dynamics related to a second-order phase transition. The effective action of model A is expanded to the order of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-12 Yong-rui Chen , Yang-yang Tan , Wei-jie Fu

A fully quantum mechanical description of the precessional damping of Pt/Co bilayer is presented in the framework of the Keldysh Green function approach using {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations. In contrast to previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Farzad Mahfouzi , Jinwoong Kim , Nicholas Kioussis

Dynamical mean-field theory is generalized to solve the nonequilibrium Keldysh boundary problem: a system is started in equilibrium at a temperature T=0.1, a uniform electric field is turned on at t=0, and the system is monitored as it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-14 J. K. Freericks

We study $T\bar{T}$-deformed $O(N)$ scalar field theory in two-dimensional spacetime using the functional renormalization group. We derive the $\beta$ functions for the couplings in the system and explore the fixed points. In addition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-15 Jie Liu , Junichi Haruna , Masatoshi Yamada

In a number of physically relevant contexts, a quantum system interacting with a decohering environment is simultaneously subjected to time-dependent controls and its dynamics is thus described by a time-dependent Lindblad master equation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Lasse H. Wolff , Daniel Malz , Rahul Trivedi

This study expands the spontaneous collapse assumptions into the relativistic quantum field theory framework for Dirac fields. By solving Lindblad's master equation using the Keldysh formalism, the effective action is derived, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Y. M. P. Gomes

Pole-skipping offers compelling evidence for the hydrodynamic origin of chaotic behavior in strongly coupled quantum systems. We demonstrate that the cumulative effect of higher-order corrections to the hydrodynamic diffusive mode, captured…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Hyun-Sik Jeong

Perturbative QFT is developed in terms of off-shell fields (that is, functionals on the configuration space not restricted by any field equation), and by quantizing the (underlying) free theory by an $\hbar$-dependent deformation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Michael Duetsch