Emergence of Temperature in Examples and Related Nuisances in Field Theory

• Main Authors: Biró, Tamás Sándor (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Jakovác, Antal (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Subjects: Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Statistical physics.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

Field theory, relying on the concept of continuous space and time while confronted with the quantum physical nature of observable quantities, still has some fundamental challenges to face. One such challenge is to understand the emergence of complexity in the behavior of interacting elementary field...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Off-shell and on-shell transport
• Uncertainty, Wigner function and Unruh temperature
• Feynman-Vernon path integral
• Keldysh (two-time) formalism
• Noise from renormalization?
• Distribution of local energy packets
• Melting of spectra.