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Progress of Theoretical Physics

Non-Equilibrium Thermo-Field Dynamics for a Fourth-Order Hamiltonian

Mizuhiko Saeki

Published Jul 1, 2010• 2 citations
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Abstract

The non-equilibrium thermo-field dynamics proposed by Arimitsu and Umezawa are generalized to the case of a fourth-order unperturbed Hamiltonian which includes not only a second-order (quadratic) part but also a fourth-order part. Fujita's analysis for effects of the initial particle correlation of a quantum gas is proved generally in terms of TFD. The forms of the quasi-particle operators for a semi-free boson field are derived. It is shown that the energies and life-times of the quasi-particles depend on the adiabatic boson-reservoir interaction which leads to the fourth-order part of the unperturbed Hamiltonian. The form of the two-point Green's function for the semi-free boson field is evaluated. A form of the admittance for a boson system interacting with its heat reservoir, which includes effects of the initial correlation and memory, is derived using the TCLE method formulated in terms of the generalized non-equilibrium thermo-field dynamics. A calculation method of the higher-order parts of the admittance in powers of the boson-boson interaction is given. Furthermore, a calculation method of the perturbation expansions of the two-point Green's function for the boson system is given.

DOI
10.1143/ptp.124.95

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A fundamental framework of thermo field dynamics (TFD), including non-equilibrium situations as well as equilibrium stuations, is formulated through a compact axiomatic form, in which no reference to reservoirs is needed, by considering quantum fields. The semi-free quantum fields in TFD are constructed in a way parallel to that of the usual quantum field theory without thermal degrees of freedom, i.e. in terms of orthonormalization relations among wave functions, the sum rule for wave functions, the divisor operator and the particle-antiparticle conjugation (C-conjugation).
The TCLE method (a method in which the admittance of a system is directly calculated from time-convolutionless equations with external driving terms) formulated in terms of thermo-field dynamics, is applied to a boson system interacting with its surroundings, referred to as the “heat reservoir”, and with an external driving field. For a boson system interacting with its heat reservoir, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, a dispersion relation, and sum rules are studied through application of the TCLE method. The effects of the interference between the external driving field and the heat reservoir, which give the effects of the initial correlation and memory, as well as the effects of the boson-boson interaction, are numerically investigated for a non-degenerate boson system interacting with its heat reservoir, up to first order in powers of the boson-boson interaction.
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A fundamental framework for the construction of a quantum field theory for open systems, which will be called non-equilibrium thermo field dynamics (NETFD), is built upon two concepts. One is the thermal state in the thermal-Liouville space, by which the quasi-particle superoperator is introduced generally from the thermal state condition. The other is the coarse graining which is realized by projecting out some partial space from the complete thermal-Liouville space, and by which the dissipation is introduced. Most properties of the usual quantum field theory (e.g., the operator formalism, the time-ordered formulation of the Green’s functions, the Feynman diagram method in real time, etc.) are preserved in NETFD. The entropy for the nonequilibrium state can be also introduced in NETFD.