Keldysh rotation in the large-N expansion and string theory out of equilibrium

Petr Hořava (Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720-8162, USA) ; Christopher J. Mogni (Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720-8162, USA)

We extend our study of the large-N expansion of general nonequilibrium many-body systems with matrix degrees of freedom M, and its dual description as a sum over surface topologies in a dual string theory, to the Keldysh-rotated version of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. The Keldysh rotation trades the original fields M±—defined as the values of M on the forward and backward segments of the closed time contour—for their linear combinations Mcl and Mqu, known as the “classical” and “quantum” fields. First we develop a novel “signpost” notation for nonequilibrium Feynman diagrams in the Keldysh-rotated form, which simplifies the analysis considerably. Before the Keldysh rotation, each world-sheet surface Σ in the dual string theory expansion was found to exhibit a triple decomposition into the parts Σ± corresponding to the forward and backward segments of the closed time contour, and Σ which corresponds to the instant in time where the two segments meet. After the Keldysh rotation, we find that the world-sheet surface Σ of the dual string theory undergoes a very different natural decomposition: Σ consists of a “classical” part Σcl and a “quantum embellishment” part Σqu. We show that both parts of Σ carry their own independent genus expansion. The nonequilibrium sum over world-sheet topologies is naturally refined into a sum over the double decomposition of each Σ into its classical and quantum part. We apply this picture to the classical limits of the quantum nonequilibrium system (with or without interactions with a thermal bath), and find that in these limits, the dual string perturbation theory expansion reduces to its appropriately defined classical limit.

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Published on:
17 November 2022
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 106 (2022)
Issue 10
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.106014
arXiv:
2010.10671
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Published by the American Physical Society
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CC-BY-4.0

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