Banff/Cap Workshop on Thermal Field Theory

by Khanna, F. C.; Kobes, R.; Kunstatter, G.; Umezawa, H.

ISBN13: 9789810217723

ISBN10: 9810217722

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 1994-08-01

Publisher(s): WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

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Summary

Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on thermal field theories and their applications.

Aspects of Thermal Field Theory	p. 1
Thermal Quantum Field Theory and External Field Problems	p. 26
Thermalization of the Higgs Field	p. 34
Computing Transport Coefficients in Relativistic Field Theory	p. 43
Real Time Propagator From First Quantization	p. 49
The Finite-Temperature Renormalization Group Applied to [actual symbol not reproducible] Theory and QCD	p. 55
Heating Field Theory the "Environmentally Friendly" Way	p. 63
Quantization of Damped Harmonic Oscillator, Thermal Field Theory and q-Groups	p. 71
A New Time Contour for Thermal Field Theories	p. 77
Why the Real Time Formalism Doesn't Factorise	p. 83
The Retarded-Advanced Basis in the Real Time Formalism	p. 89
Background Spacetime for Finite Temperature Field Theory	p. 95
O(N) Vector Models in the Limit [actual symbol not reproducible] and Finite Temperature	p. 104
Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Thermal Physics	p. 109
The Problem of Ground State in Thermo-Field Dynamics	p. 146
Feynman Diagram Recipes in TFD	p. 155
Entangled States and Diagramatics at [actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 162
Entropy in Inhomogeneous TFD	p. 168
A Formulation of Time-Resolved Optical Spectrum for Transient Resonant Light Scattering	p. 174
Field Theoretical Background for Thermal Physics	p. 180
Finite Temperature Effective Potential in the Hartree-Fock Approximation	p. 205
On the Nature of the Abelian Higgs Model Phase Transition	p. 215
The Effective Potential for Gauge Theories and at Finite Temperature	p. 221
Non-Equilibrium Electrodynamics in the Large N Expansion	p. 227
Canonical Quantisation of Thermal Gauge Theories	p. 243
Debye Screening Length in the Imaginary-Time Formalism in the Temporal Gauge	p. 249
Thermal Self-Energies Near Zero Four-Momentum	p. 255
Dimensional Continuation of Gauge-Invariant Quantities in Yang-Mills Theory	p. 261
Parametrization and Gauge Invariance of the Transition Temperature	p. 266
Three-Dimensional [actual symbol not reproducible] Model with an External Non-Abelian Field and Temperature	p. 273
Hard Thermal Loops, Chern-Simons Theory and the Quark-Gluon Plasma	p. 279
Gauge Invariance and Disequilibrium in Chern-Simons Theory	p. 287
Phase Transitions in Non-Minimally Coupled Chern-Simons Scalar QED	p. 297
Thermodynamics of Non-Abelian Chern-Simons Particles	p. 303
Quantum Statistical Field Theory in Gravitation and Cosmology	p. 309
Dynamics of Phase Transitions in the Early Universe	p. 347
Phase Transitions in the Early Universe	p. 353
The Role of Local Defects on Phase Transitions in the Early Universe. Interacting Cosmic Strings	p. 364
Fluctuations About Defects	p. 370
Real-Time Propagator in the First Quantized Formalism: Relativistic Particle and Strings	p. 374
Cosmology with Matter Creation	p. 381
Black Holes as P-Branes	p. 387
Hot Hodgepodge: Banff, 1993	p. 400
Perturbative Hot Gauge Theories - Recent Results	p. 417
New Developments in Quark-Gluon Transport Theory	p. 428
Infrared and Mass Singularities at Finite Temperature	p. 440
Cancellation of Infrared Divergences in QED at Nonzero Temperature	p. 450
Soft Fields and Hard Particles in Hot Gauge Plasmas	p. 456
Plasmon Decay: From QED to QCD	p. 463
Gauge-Independent Extraction of the Next-to-Leading Order Debye Mass from the Gluon Propagator	p. 469
Pion Interactions in Thermal Field Theories	p. 477
Introduction to Z[subscript N] Symmetry in SU[subscript N] Gauge Theories at Finite Temperatures	p. 483
Z(N) Bubbles and Their Descendants in Hot QCD: Alive and Bubbling	p. 490
Braaten-Pisarski Action, Disoriented Chiral Condensate, and Chiral Symmetry Non-Restoration	p. 503
Thermo Field Dynamics for Quantum Fields with Continuous Mass Spectrum Applied to Nuclear Physics	p. 509
Nuclear Structure at Finite Temperature	p. 519
The Nuclear Many-Body Problem at Finite Temperature	p. 529
List of Participants	p. 535
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