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Order parameter evolution in scalar QFT: renormalization group resummation of secular terms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The quantum evolution equations for the field expectation value are analytically solved to cubic order in the field amplitude and to one-loop level in the lambda phi-fourth model. We adapt and use the renormalization group (RG) method for such non-linear and non-local equations. The time dependence of the field expectation value is explicitly derived integrating the RG equations. It is shown that the field amplitude for late times approaches a finite limit as the time to the power -3/2. This limiting value is expressed as a function of the initial field amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9701104,
  title  = {Order parameter evolution in scalar QFT: renormalization group resummation of secular terms},
  author = {H. J. de Vega and J. F. J. Salgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9701104},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex file, 13 pages, no figures

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