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Time Evolution of Non-Equilibrium Effective Action

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1 Condensed Matter

Abstract

The time evolution of correlation functions in statistical systems is described by an exact functional differential equation for the corresponding generating functionals. This allows for a systematic discussion of non-equilibrium physics and the approach to equilibrium without the need of solving the nonlinear microscopic equations of motion or computing the time dependence of the probability distribution explicitly.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612206,
  title  = {Time Evolution of Non-Equilibrium Effective Action},
  author = {Christof Wetterich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612206},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, Latex

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