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Thermal quantum field theory : ウィキペディア英語版
Thermal quantum field theory
In theoretical physics, thermal quantum field theory (thermal field theory for short) or finite temperature field theory is a set of methods to calculate expectation values of physical observables of a quantum field theory at finite temperature.
In the Matsubara formalism,
the basic idea (due to Felix Bloch) is that the expectation values of operators in a thermal ensemble
: \langle A\rangle=\frac
may be written as expectation values in ordinary quantum field theory where the configuration is evolved by an imaginary time \tau=-it(0\leq\tau\leq\beta). One can therefore switch to
a spacetime with Euclidean signature, where the
above trace (Tr) leads to the requirement that all bosonic and fermionic
fields be periodic and antiperiodic, respectively, with respect to
the Euclidean time direction with periodicity \beta = 1/(kT) (we are assuming natural units \hbar = 1). This allows
one to perform calculations with the same tools as in ordinary quantum field theory,
such as functional integrals and Feynman diagrams, but with compact Euclidean time. Note that the definition of normal ordering has to be altered.
In momentum space, this leads to the replacement of continuous frequencies by
discrete imaginary (Matsubara) frequencies v_n = n / \beta and, through the de Broglie relation, to a discretized thermal energy spectrum E_n = n K T . This has been shown to be a useful tool
in studying the behavior of quantum field theories at finite temperature.
〔D.A. Kirznits JETP Lett. 15 (1972) 529.〕
〔D.A. Kirznits and A.D. Linde, Phys. Lett. B42 (1972) 471; it Ann. Phys.
101 (1976) 195.〕

It has been generalized to theories with gauge invariance and was a central tool
in the study of a conjectured deconfining phase transition of Yang-Mills theory.
〔C. W. Bernard, Phys. Rev. D9 (1974) 3312.〕
〔D.J. Gross, R.D. Pisarski and L.G. Yaffe, Rev. Mod. Phys. 53 (1981) 43.〕
In this Euclidean field theory, real-time observables can be retrieved
by analytic continuation.
The alternative to the use of fictitious imaginary times is to use a real-time formalism which come in two forms. A path-ordered approach to real-time formalisms includes the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism and more modern variants.
The latter involves replacing a straight time contour from (large negative) real
initial time t_i to t_i - i\beta by one that first runs to (large positive) real time t_f and then suitably back to t_i - i\beta. In fact all that is needed is one section running along the real time axis as the route to
the end point, t_i - i\beta, is less important.
The piecewise composition
of the resulting complex time contour leads to a doubling of fields and more complicated
Feynman rules, but obviates the need of analytic continuations of the imaginary-time formalism. The alternative approach to real-time formalisms is an operator based approach using Bogoliubov transformations, known as thermo field dynamics.〔〔

As well as Feynman diagrams and perturbation theory, other techniques such as dispersion relations
and the finite temperature analog of Cutkosky rules can also be used in the real time formulation
.
An alternative approach which is of interest to mathematical physics is to work with
KMS states.
== See also ==

*Matsubara frequency

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