Effects of dissipation on phase diagram and bosonic excitations in the quark-meson model

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Hauptverfasser: Roth, Johannes V., Ye, Yunxin, Schlichting, Sören, von Smekal, Lorenz
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author Roth, Johannes V.
Ye, Yunxin
Schlichting, Sören
von Smekal, Lorenz
author_facet Roth, Johannes V.
Ye, Yunxin
Schlichting, Sören
von Smekal, Lorenz
contents In this work we study the quark-meson model within a real-time formulation of the functional renormalization group (FRG) on the Schwinger-Keldysh contour. First, we discuss in detail the symmetry of thermal equilibrium for the fermionic sector of the Keldysh action. We take into account dissipation for the bosonic degrees of freedom in the spirit of the Caldeira-Leggett model by coupling the system to an $O(4)$ invariant external heat bath. We study the effect of dissipation on static equilibrium properties, most prominently on the FRG flow of the effective potential and thus on the resulting phase diagram. We find that, unlike in classical systems, through the contributions from non-zero Matsubara modes the dissipative dynamics can in general have an effect on static observables. We investigate these effects within two phenomenological models for the temperature dependence of the pion damping to verify that they are quantitatively small. To estimate their largest possible influence, we consider limits where the damping constants approach infinity.
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spellingShingle Effects of dissipation on phase diagram and bosonic excitations in the quark-meson model
Roth, Johannes V.
Ye, Yunxin
Schlichting, Sören
von Smekal, Lorenz
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
In this work we study the quark-meson model within a real-time formulation of the functional renormalization group (FRG) on the Schwinger-Keldysh contour. First, we discuss in detail the symmetry of thermal equilibrium for the fermionic sector of the Keldysh action. We take into account dissipation for the bosonic degrees of freedom in the spirit of the Caldeira-Leggett model by coupling the system to an $O(4)$ invariant external heat bath. We study the effect of dissipation on static equilibrium properties, most prominently on the FRG flow of the effective potential and thus on the resulting phase diagram. We find that, unlike in classical systems, through the contributions from non-zero Matsubara modes the dissipative dynamics can in general have an effect on static observables. We investigate these effects within two phenomenological models for the temperature dependence of the pion damping to verify that they are quantitatively small. To estimate their largest possible influence, we consider limits where the damping constants approach infinity.
title Effects of dissipation on phase diagram and bosonic excitations in the quark-meson model
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21746