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World Scientific series in 20th century physics

NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL FIELD THEORY AND CRITICAL DYNAMICS (II): LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY FORMULATION

Guangzhao Zhou, Bailin Hao, Lu Yu

Published May 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

The expression of the effective action for the order parameters is derived from the continuous integral representation for the generating functional on the closed time path in the one loop approximation for the Fourier transforms. The Lagrangian formulation of the critical dynamics is recovered in the second order approximation of fluctuations in the closed time path continuous integral. The various possibilities of improving the existing theory of critical dynamics are considered.

DOI
10.1142/9789814280389_0119

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The expression of the effective action for the order parameters is derived from the continuous integral representation for the generating functional on the closed time path in the one loop approximation for the Fourier transforms. The Lagrangian formulation of the critical dynamics is recovered in the second order approximation of fluctuations in the closed time path continuous integral. The various possibilities of improving the existing theory of critical dynamics are considered.
The closed time path Green's function (CTPGF) formalism is applied to the critical dynamics. The related results for the CTPGF approach are briefly reviewed. Three different forms of CTPGF's are defined, transformations from one to another form and other useful computation rules are given. The path integral presentation of the generating functional for CTPGF's is used to derive the Ward-Takahashi identities under both linear and nonlinear transformations of field variables. The generalized Langevin equations for the order parameters and conserved variables are derived from the vertex functional on the closed time path. The proper form of the equations for the conserved variables, including automatically the mode coupling terms, is determined according to the Ward-Takahashi identities and the linear response theory. All existing dynamic models are reobtained by assuming the corresponding symmetry properties for the system. The effective action for the order parameters is deduced by averaging over the random external field. The Lagrangian formulation of the statistical field theory is obtained if the random field one-loop approximation and the second-order approximation of order-parameter fluctuations on different time branches are both taken. The various possibilities of improving the current theory of critical dynamics within the framework of CTPGF's are discussed. The problem of renormalization for the finite-temperature field theory is considered. The whole theoretical framework is also applicable to systems near the stationary states far from equilibrium, whenever there exists an analog of the potential function (free energy).
A bstract We present first calculations of critical spectral functions of the relaxational Models A, B, and C in the Halperin-Hohenberg classification using a real-time formulation of the functional renormalization group (FRG). We revisit the prediction by Son and Stephanov that the linear coupling of a conserved density to the non-conserved order parameter of Model A gives rise to critical Model-B dynamics. We formulate both 1-loop and 2-loop self-consistent expansion schemes in the 1PI vertex functions as truncations of the effective average action suitable for real-time applications, and analyze in detail how the different critical dynamics are properly incorporated in the framework of the FRG on the closed-time path. We present results for the corresponding critical spectral functions, extract the dynamic critical exponents for Models A, B, and C, in two and three spatial dimensions, respectively, and compare the resulting values with recent results from the literature.
We present first calculations of critical spectral functions of the relaxational Models A, B, and C in the Halperin-Hohenberg classification using a real-time formulation of the functional renormalization group (FRG). We revisit the prediction by Son and Stephanov that the linear coupling of a conserved density to the non-conserved order parameter of Model A gives rise to critical Model-B dynamics. We formulate both 1-loop and 2-loop self-consistent expansion schemes in the 1PI vertex functions as truncations of the effective average action suitable for real-time applications, and analyze in detail how the different critical dynamics are properly incorporated in the framework of the FRG on the closed-time path. We present results for the corresponding critical spectral functions, extract the dynamic critical exponents for Models A, B, and C, in two and three spatial dimensions, respectively, and compare the resulting values with recent results from the literature.
The influence of nonequilibrium initial values of the order parameter on its evolution at a critical point is described using a renormalization group approach of the field theory. The dynamic critical exponent θ of the short time evolution of a system with an n -component order parameter is calculated within a dynamical dissipative model using the method of Σ-expansion in a three-loop approximation. Numerical values of θ for three-dimensional systems are determined using the Padé-Borel method for the summation of asymptotic series.
Components of a field function are functions of coordinates and time and satisfy some definite differential equations, which are called field equations. Field equations can be given a very general variational or Lagrangian form, if one accepts, that a field as the dynamic system must be characterized by a definite Lagrangian function. For a mechanical system this function is written down as the sum over all the material points of the system. For a continuous system like a wave field, Lagrangian function is expressed by the space integral from Lagrangian function density: L(t) = ∫ Ld3x. (4.1) However, the variational principle deals not with the Lagrangian function but with an action S obtained from it by means of integration over x0 = ct S = c ∫ L(t)dt. (4.2) Therefore, noncovariant expression (4.1) in Lagrangian formalism is in fact intermediate and it is sufficient to consider the Lagrangian function density L, which depends on the four space-time coordinates x in an implicit way. Hereinafter, we shall simply call L by the Lagrangian. Analogously, the Hamiltonian function density H will be named the Hamiltonian. The Lagrangian depends on components of a field wavefunction ψk and on their first derivatives with respect to the space-time coordinates ∂ψk/∂x ν . In so doing we assign the meaning of generalized field coordinates to ψk, and the meaning of generalized field velocities to ∂ψk/∂x ν . The demand of lacking derivatives with respect to field functions above the first order in the Lagrangian is caused by the following reason. Dynamics of all known quantum fields is described either by equations of the first or the second order. On the one hand, these equations follow from the principle of a least action: δS = 0, (4.3) and under action variation the order of derivatives, entering L, is raised by one. The Lagrangian must be a relativistically covariant quantity, namely, a relativistic scalar L′(x′) = L(x). Thanks to the invariance under the space-time translations, we conclude that the Lagrangian must not manifestly contain any space-time coordinates x. Since dynamical observables (four-dimensional vector of the energy-momentum, the moment of momentum tensor, and so on) are real quantities, then the Lagrangian must be also a real quantity. We shall also impose the locality condition on the Lagrangian, that is, we assume that the Lagrangian depends only on the state of fields in the infinitely small vicinity of the point Particles, Fields, and Quantum x. So: L(x) = L(ψk, ∂ψk ∂xν ) = L (ψk(x), ψk;ν (x)) . General variation of an action, related with varying both field wave functions and of integration domain boundaries, is equal to: δS = δ ∫ L(x)dx = ∫ L(x′)dx′ − ∫ L(x)dx, (4.4) where dx = dx0dr. For L′(x′) we have the expression: L′(x′) = L (ψ′k(x′), ψ′k;ν(x′)) = L(x) + δL(x) = L(x) + δL(x) + dLdxλ δxλ, (4.5) In Eq. (4.5) we denote a form variation of corresponding quantities by the symbol δ. This way δL(x) represents varying the Lagrangian only on the account of the variation of field functions and field function derivatives: δL(x) = ∂L ∂ψk δψk + ∂L ∂ψk;ν δψk;ν , (4.6) and δψk(x) does a variation of a field function form: δψk(x) = ψ ′ k(x) − ψk(x).