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由路径积分得到的半经典级数

Semiclassical Series from Path Integrals

C. A. A. de Carvalho, R. M. Cavalcanti

摘要:

从量子统计力学中配分函数的路径积分表示出发,导出了配分函数的半经典级数。级数的每一项都是从经典作用量的(实)极小值中显式获得的。该方法给出了谐振子精确结果的简单推导,以及单阱四次非谐振子基态能量和比热的精确估计。由于QSM在某一点上可以看作是有限温度场论,我们利用费曼图来说明该级数的非微扰性质:它包含了$\hbar$的所有幂和具有任意数量环的图;通常的微扰级数对应于半经典级数图的子集。我们评论我们的结果应用到其他潜在的,关联函数和场论在更高的维度。

英文摘要:

We derive the semiclassical series for the partition function in Quantum Statistical Mechanics (QSM) from its path integral representation. Each term of the series is obtained explicitly from the (real) minima of the classical action. The method yields a simple derivation of the exact result for the harmonic oscillator, and an accurate estimate of ground-state energy and specific heat for a single-well quartic anharmonic oscillator. As QSM can be regarded as finite temperature field theory at a point, we make use of Feynman diagrams to illustrate the non-perturbative character of the series: it contains all powers of $\hbar$ and graphs with any number of loops; the usual perturbative series corresponds to a subset of the diagrams of the semiclassical series. We comment on the application of our results to other potentials, to correlation functions and to field theories in higher dimensions.

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