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Title: Constructing phase space distributions with internal symmetries

Abstract

We discuss an ab initio world-line approach to constructing phase space distributions in systems with internal symmetries. Starting from the Schwinger-Keldysh real-time path integral in quantum field theory, we derive the most general extension of the Wigner phase space distribution to include color and spin degrees of freedom in terms of dynamical Grassmann variables. The corresponding Liouville distribution for colored particles, which obey Wong’s equation, has only singlet and octet components, while higher moments are fully constrained by the Grassmann algebra. The extension of phase space dynamics to spin is represented by a generalization of the Pauli-Lubanski vector; its time evolution via the Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi equation also follows from the phase space trajectories of the underlying Grassmann coordinates. Our results for the Liouville phase space distribution in systems with both spin and color are of interest in fields as diverse as chiral fluids, finite temperature field theory and polarized parton distribution functions. We also comment on the role of the chiral anomaly in the phase space dynamics of spinning particles.

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Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); German Research Foundation (DFG)
OSTI Identifier:
1498591
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1505106
Report Number(s):
BNL-211515-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 056003
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SC0012704; 404640738
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Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; anomalies; many-body techniques; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; path integrals; quantum field theory; quantum kinetic theory; relativistic heavy-ion collisions; relativistic kinetic theory; topology

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Mueller, Niklas, and Venugopalan, Raju. Constructing phase space distributions with internal symmetries. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.056003.
Mueller, Niklas, & Venugopalan, Raju. Constructing phase space distributions with internal symmetries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.056003
Mueller, Niklas, and Venugopalan, Raju. Fri . "Constructing phase space distributions with internal symmetries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.056003.
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title = {Constructing phase space distributions with internal symmetries},
author = {Mueller, Niklas and Venugopalan, Raju},
abstractNote = {We discuss an ab initio world-line approach to constructing phase space distributions in systems with internal symmetries. Starting from the Schwinger-Keldysh real-time path integral in quantum field theory, we derive the most general extension of the Wigner phase space distribution to include color and spin degrees of freedom in terms of dynamical Grassmann variables. The corresponding Liouville distribution for colored particles, which obey Wong’s equation, has only singlet and octet components, while higher moments are fully constrained by the Grassmann algebra. The extension of phase space dynamics to spin is represented by a generalization of the Pauli-Lubanski vector; its time evolution via the Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi equation also follows from the phase space trajectories of the underlying Grassmann coordinates. Our results for the Liouville phase space distribution in systems with both spin and color are of interest in fields as diverse as chiral fluids, finite temperature field theory and polarized parton distribution functions. We also comment on the role of the chiral anomaly in the phase space dynamics of spinning particles.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.99.056003},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 5,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Fri Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2019}
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