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These notes provide an overview of real-time techniques in quantum field theories and holography. We outline the general rationale and principles underlying the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism and its out-of-time-order generalizations. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Felix M. Haehl , Mukund Rangamani

Direct numerical evaluation of the real-time path integral has a well-known sign problem that makes convergence exponentially slow. One promising remedy is to use Picard-Lefschetz theory to flow the domain of the field variables into the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-19 Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin , Anders Tranberg , Simon Woodward

We provide a prescription to construct R\'{e}nyi and von Neumann entropy of a system of interacting fermions from a knowledge of its correlation functions. We show that R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy of interacting fermions in arbitrary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-09 Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma

In this work, we study the time-dependent behaviour of quantum correlations of a system of an inverted oscillator governed by out-of-equilibrium dynamics using the well-known Schwinger-Keldysh formalism in presence of quantum mechanical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Sayantan Choudhury , Suman Dey , Rakshit Mandish Gharat , Saptarshi Mandal , Nilesh Pandey

Electron gas in a wire connected to two terminals with potential drop is studied with the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. Recent studies, where the current is enforced to flow with a Lagrange-multiplier term, demonstrated that the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Based on the real-time formalism, especially, on Thermo Field Dynamics, we derive the Schwinger-Dyson gap equation for the fermion propagator in QED and Four-Fermion model at finite-temperature and -density. We discuss some advantage of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 K. -I. Kondo , K. Yoshida

The time evolution of an extended quantum system can be theoretically described in terms of the Schwinger-Keldysh functional integral formalism, whose action conveniently encodes the information about the dynamics. We show here that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-11 L. M. Sieberer , A. Chiocchetta , A. Gambassi , U. C. Täuber , S. Diehl

The theory of real-time quantum many-body dynamics as put forward in Ref. [arXiv:0710.4627] is evaluated in detail. The formulation is based on a generating functional of correlation functions where the Keldysh contour is closed at a given…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-09 Thomas Gasenzer , Stefan Kessler , Jan M. Pawlowski

In this paper, the real-time dynamics of the $O(4)$ scalar theory is studied within the functional renormalization group formulated on the Schwinger-Keldysh closed time path. The flow equations for the effective action and its $n$-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Yang-yang Tan , Yong-rui Chen , Wei-jie Fu

We consider dynamics of the massive minimally coupled scalar field theory in an expanding Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe. We consider the standard toy model of the conformally flat space-time where the conformal factor becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 E. T. Akhmedov , P. A. Anempodistov

Input-output theory is a well-known tool in quantum optics and ubiquitous in the description of quantum systems probed by light. Owing to the generality of the setup it describes, the theory finds application in a wide variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Aaron Daniel , Matteo Brunelli , Aashish A. Clerk , Patrick P. Potts

Spectral analysis of the {\em adjoint} propagator in a suitable Hilbert space (and Lie algebra) of quantum observables in Heisenberg picture is discussed as an alternative approach to characterize infinite temperature dynamics of non-linear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomaz Prosen

We examine the recently proposed imaginary-time formulation for strongly correlated steady-state nonequilibrium for its range of validity and discuss significant improvements in the analytic continuation of the Matsubara voltage as well as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 J. E. Han

Non-perturbatively generated effective potentials play an extremely useful and often critical role in string and inflationary model building. These potentials are typically computed by methods that assume the system is in equilibrium. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Guilherme L. Pimentel , John Stout

Real-time computation of time-dependent quantum mechanical problems are presented for nuclear many-body problems. Quantum tunneling in nuclear fusion at low energy is described using a time-dependent wave packet. A real-time method of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-16 Takashi Nakatsukasa

The space of n-point correlation functions, for all possible time-orderings of operators, can be computed by a non-trivial path integral contour, which depends on how many time-ordering violations are present in the correlator. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 Felix M. Haehl , R. Loganayagam , Prithvi Narayan , Mukund Rangamani

The scattering cross section of the resonant inelastic light scattering is represented as a correlation function in the Keldysh-Schwinger functional integral formalism. The functional integral approach enables us to compute the cross…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 Hyun C. Lee

We develop a highly efficient method to numerically simulate thermal fluctuations and correlations in non-relativistic continuous bosonic one-dimensional systems. We start by noticing the equivalence of their description through the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-20 Stefan Beck , Igor E. Mazets , Thomas Schweigler

A new energy-based stochastic extension of the Schrodinger equation for which the wave function collapses after the passage of a finite amount of time is proposed. An exact closed-form solution to the dynamical equation, valid for all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

We analyze vacuum tunneling in quantum field theory in a general formalism by using the Wigner representation. In the standard instanton formalism, one usually approximates the initial false vacuum state by an eigenstate of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 Mark P. Hertzberg , Masaki Yamada