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We present a non-perturbative regularization scheme for Quantum Field Theories which amounts to an embedding of the originally unregularized theory into a spacetime with an extra compactified dimensions of length L ~ Lambda^{-1} (with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. D. Fosco , F. A. Schaposnik

In order to predict the cosmological abundance of dark matter, an estimation of particle rates in an expanding thermal environment is needed. For thermal dark matter, the non-relativistic regime sets the stage for the freeze-out of the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-21 Simone Biondini , Nora Brambilla , Gramos Qerimi , Antonio Vairo

Both nonzero temperature and chemical potentials break the Lorentz symmetry present in vacuum quantum field theory by singling out the rest frame of the heat bath. This leads to complications in the application of thermal perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-11 Juuso Österman , Philipp Schicho , Aleksi Vuorinen

The mathematical description of stable particle-like systems appearing in relativistic quantum field theory at large, respectively small scales or non-zero temperatures is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Detlev Buchholz

The calculation of the density matrix for fermions and bosons in the Grand Canonical Ensemble allows an efficient way for the inclusion of fermionic and bosonic statistics at all temperatures. It is shown that in a Path Integral Formulation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Skorobogatiy , J. Joannopoulos

A new application of quantum field theory is developed that gives a description of the internal dynamics of dressed elementary particles and predicts their masses. The fermionic and bosonic quantum fields are treated as interdependent…

General Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 J. M. Greben

We study the heat statistics of a quantum Brownian motion described by the Caldeira-Leggett model. By using the path integral approach, we introduce a novel concept of the quantum heat functional along every pair of Feynman paths. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-18 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan

We introduce an atomistic approach to the dissipative quantum dynamics of charged or neutral excitations propagating through macromolecular systems. Using the Feynman-Vernon path integral formalism, we analytically trace out from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-28 E. Schneider , S. a Beccara , P. Faccioli

We generalize the concept of conserving,\Phi-derivable, approximations to relativistic field theories. Treating the interaction field as a dynamical degree of freedom, we derive the thermodynamical potential in terms of fully dressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Benoit Vanderheyden , Gordon Baym

A quantum-field approach for describing many-particle Fermi systems at finite temperatures and with spontaneously broken symmetry has been proposed. A generalized model of self-consistent field (SCF), which allows one to describe the states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-21 Yu. M. Poluektov

The simple physics of a free particle reveals important features of the path-integral formulation of relativistic quantum theories. The exact quantum-mechanical propagator is calculated here for a particle described by the simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ian H. Redmount , Wai-Mo Suen

A formalism is discussed which simplifies the calculation of Feynman diagrams at finite temperature.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 P. A. Henning

For a system of bosons that interact through a class of general memory kernels, a recurrence relation for the partition function is derived within the path-integral formalism. This approach provides a generalization to previously known…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-02 Timour Ichmoukhamedov , Jacques Tempere

Standard quantization using, for example, path integration of field theory models, includes paths of momentum and field reach infinity in the Hamiltonian density, while the Hamiltonian itself remains finite. That fact causes considerable…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 John R. Klauder , Riccardo Fantoni

We propose a path-integral variant of the DMRG method to calculate real-time correlation functions at arbitrary finite temperatures. To illustrate the method we study the longitudinal autocorrelation function of the $XXZ$-chain. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Sirker , A. Klümper

We combine the recent $\eta-$ensemble path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach to the free energy [T.~Dornheim \textit{et al.}, \textit{Phys.~Rev.~B} \textbf{111}, L041114 (2025)] with a recent fictitious partition function technique based…

To study composite fermions around an even denominator fraction, we adapt the phase space single-particle path integral technique for interacting electrons in zero magnetic field developed recently by D.S. Golubev and A.D. Zaikin, Phys.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kasper Astrup Eriksen , Per Hedegaard , Henrik Bruus

We introduce a quasiclassical Green function approach describing the unitary yet irreversible dynamics of quantum systems effectively acting as their own environment. Combining a variety of concepts of quantum many-body theory, notably the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Alexander Altland , Kun Woo Kim , Tobias Micklitz

The use of variational method in functional integral approach is discussed for fermion and boson systems with Coulomb interaction. The formal general expression of thermodynamic potential is obtained by Feynman path integral technique and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ilmars Madzhulis , Vilnis Frishfelds

The new {\em ab initio} quantum path integral Monte Carlo approach has been developed and applied for the entropy difference calculations for the strongly coupled degenerated uniform electron gas (UEG), a well--known model of simple metals.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Vladimir Filinov , Pavel Levashov , Alexander Larkin