Nonperturbative calculation of symmetry breaking in quantum field theory

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作者
Bender, CM [1 ]
Milton, KA [1 ]
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[1] UNIV OKLAHOMA, DEPT PHYS & ASTRON, NORMAN, OK 73019 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevD.55.R3255
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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A new version of the delta expansion is presented, which, unlike the conventional delta expansion, can be used to do nonperturbative calculations in a self-interacting scalar quantum field theory having broken symmetry. We calculate the expectation value of the scalar field to first order in delta, where delta is a measure of the degree of nonlinearity in the interaction term.
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