Improved Hartree-Fock resummations and spontaneous symmetry breaking

Sep, 2005
42 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 73 (2006) 025012
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Report number:
  • BICOCCA-FT-05-22

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Abstract: (arXiv)
The standard Hartree--Fock approximation of the O(N)O(N)-invariant ϕ4\phi^4 model suffers from serious renormalization problems. In addition, when the symmetry is spontaneously broken, another shortcoming appears in relation to the Goldstone bosons: they fail to be massless in the intermediate states. In this work, within the framework of out--of--equilibrium Quantum Field Theory, we propose a class of systematic improvements of the Hartree--Fock resummation which overcomes all the above mentioned difficulties while ensuring also exact Renormalization--Group invariance to one loop.
Note:
  • 42 pages, 9 figures
  • 11.15.Pg
  • 11.10.Gh
  • 11.10.Ef
  • phi**n model: 4
  • symmetry: O(N)
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • Hartree-Fock approximation
  • renormalization group
  • mean field approximation