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V. P. Maslov

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arXiv2000

Quantization of Thermodynamics, Supersecondary Quantization, and a New Variational Principle

In solving the problem of finding a temperature distribution which, at zero temperature, corresponds to superfluidity, i.e., to nonzero energy, the author tried to quantize free energy. This was done on the basis of supersecondary quantization whose special case is the usual secondary quantization for bosons and with the help of which new representations of the Schrödinger equation were obtained. The supersecondary quantization allowed the author to construct a variational method whose zero approximation are the Hartree-Fock and Bogolyubov-BCSch variational principles. This method works especially well in the case of not a large number of particles. The new quantization and the variational method are of general character and can be used in the quantum field theory.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

arXiv1998

Large-N Expansion as Semiclassical Approximation to the Third-Quantized Theory

The semiclassical theory for the large-N field models is developed from an unusual point of view. Analogously to the procedure of the second quantization in quantum mechanics, the functional Schrodinger large-N equation is presented in a third-quantized form. The third-quantized creation and annihilation operators depend on the field $ϕ({\bf x})$. If the coefficient of the $ϕ^4$-term is of order 1/N (this is a usual condition of applicability of the 1/N-expansion), one can rescale the third-quantized operators in such a way that their commutator will be small, while the Heisenberg equations will not contain large or small parameters. This means that classical equation of motion is an equation on the functional $Φ[ϕ(\cdot)]$. This equation being a nonlinear analog of the functional Schrodinger equation for the one-field theory is investigated. The exact solutions are constructed and the renormalization problem is analysed. We also perform a quantization procedure about found classical solutions. The corresponding semiclassical theory is a theory of a variable number of fields. The developed third-quantized semiclassical approach is applied to the problem of finding the large-N spectrum. The results are compared with obtained by known methods. We show that not only known but also new energy levels can be found.

hep-th↗

arXiv1998

A Third-Quantized Approach to the Large-N Field Models

Large-N field systems are considered from an unusual point of view. The Hamiltonian is presented in a third-quantized form analogously to the second-quantized formulation of the quantum theory of many particles. The semiclassical approximation is applied to the third-quantized Hamiltonian. The advantages of this approach in comparison with 1/N-expansion are discussed.

hep-th↗

arXiv1998

Renormalization of the Semiclassical Hamiltonian Field Theory

The Hamiltonian approach to the quantum field theory is considered. Since there are additional difficulties such as the Haag theorem and Stueckelberg divergences, renormalization of the time-dependent dynamical quantum field theory is much more complicated than renormalization of the S-matrix. It is necessary to consider the regularized theory with ultraviolet and infrared cutoffs and impose the conditions not only on the dependence of the Hamiltonian on the cutoffs (as usual) but also on the dependence of the initial states. It happens that one should consider the initial states to be singulary dependent on the cutoffs in order to avoid the Stueckelberg divergences. Different types of semiclassical approximations to quantum theory are discussed. It happens that the method of quantizing classical solutions to field equations corresponds not to the WKB-approach but to the complex-WKB theory. The problem of imposing conditions on the semiclassical initial states is discussed. Different prescriptions for choice of initial conditions are analysed.

hep-th↗

arXiv1997

Initial Conditions for Semiclassical Field Theory

Semiclassical approximation based on extracting a c-number classical component from quantum field is widely used in the quantum field theory. Semiclassical states are considered then as Gaussian wave packets in the functional Schrodinger representation and as Gaussian vectors in the Fock representation. We consider the problem of divergences and renormalization in the semiclassical field theory in the Hamiltonian formulation. Although divergences in quantum field theory are usually associated with loop Feynman graphs, divergences in the Hamiltonian approach may arise even at the tree level. For example, formally calculated probability of pair creation in the leading order of the semiclassical expansion may be divergent. This observation was interpretted as an argumentation for considering non-unitary evolution transformations, as well as non-equivalent representations of canonical commutation relations at different time moments. However, we show that this difficulty can be overcomed without the assumption about non-unitary evolution. We consider first the Schrodinger equation for the regularized field theory with ultraviolet and infrared cutoffs. We study the problem of making a limit to the local theory. To consider such a limit, one should impose not only the requirement on the counterterms entering to the quantum Hamiltonian but also the requirement on the initial state in the theory with cutoffs. We find such a requirement in the leading order of the semiclassical expansion and show that it is invariant under time evolution. This requirement is also presented as a condition on the quadratic form entering to the Gaussian state.

hep-th↗

arXiv1995

Geometrical Quantization in Fock Space

We investigate an infinite dimensional analog of the theory of Lagrangian manifolds with complex germs. To such a manifold we assign a canonical operator that depends on creation and annihilation operators. This operator is by definition the geometrical quantization for these isotropic manifolds with complex germs. We prove that for secondary quantized equations this quantization is the asymptotics for the Cauchy problem. Results of Berezin are used thouroughly in the construction of the canonical operator and in proofs of the theorems.

q-alg↗

arXiv1995

On the Problem of Chaos Conservation in Quantum Physics

We develop a new method of constructing a large N asymptotic series in powers of $N^{-1/2}$ for the function of N arguments which is a solution to the Cauchy problem for the equation of a special type. Many-particle Wigner, Schrödinger and Liouville equations for a system of a large number of particles are of this type, when the external potential is of order O(1), while the coefficient of the particle interaction potential is 1/N; the potentials can be arbitrary smooth bounded functions. We apply this method to equations for N-particle states corresponding to the N-th tensor power of an abstract Hamiltonian algebra of observables. In particular, we show for the case of multiparticle Schrödinger-like equations that the property of N-particle wave function to be approximately equal at large N to the product of one-particle wave functions does not conserve under time evolution, while the same property for the correlation functions of the finite order is known to conserve(such hypothesis being the quantum analog of the chaos conservation hypothesis put forward by M.Kac in 1956 was proved by the analysis of the BBGKY-like hierarchy of equations). In order to find a leading asymptotics for the N-particle wave function, one should use not only the solution to the well- known Hartree equation being derivable from the BBGKY approach but also the solution to another (Riccati-type) equation presented in this paper. We also consider another interesting case when one adds to the N-particle system under consideration one more particle interacting with the system with the coefficient of the interaction potential of order O(1).It happens that in this case one should investigate not a single Hartree-like equation but a set of such equations, and the chaos will not conserve even for the correlators.

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