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International Conference "Fields & Strings 2024"
February 8, 2024 12:30, Moscow, Steklov Mathematical Institute


Nonequillibrium Green's functions and its analytic properties for mixed states

N. M. Kolganov

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny, Moscow region


https://youtu.be/roy5Oz1-Brc

Abstract: We develop Schwinger-Keldysh in-in formalism for generic nonequilibrium dynamical systems with mixed initial states. We construct the generating functional of in-in Green's functions and expectation values for a generic density matrix of the Gaussian type and show that the requirement of particle interpretation selects a distinguished set of positive/negative frequency basis functions of the wave operator of the theory, which is determined by the density matrix parameters. Then we consider a special case of the density matrix determined by the Euclidean path integral of the theory, which in the cosmological context can be considered as a generalization of the no-boundary pure state to the case of the microcanonical ensemble, and show that in view of a special reflection symmetry its Wightman Green's functions satisfy Kubo-Martin-Schwinger periodicity conditions which hold despite the nonequilibrium nature of the physical setup.

Language: English


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