학술논문

Thermal operator representation of feynman graphs
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Brazilian Journal of Physics. December 2006 36(4a)
Subject
Quantum field theory
Finite temperature
thermal operator
Language
English
ISSN
0103-9733
Abstract
In this talk I describe an interesting relation between Feynman graphs at finite temperature and chemical potential and the corresponding ones at zero temperature. The operator relating the two which we call the "thermal operator", simplifies the evaluation of finite temperature graphs and helps in understanding better several physical questions such as cutting rules, forward scattering, gauge invariance etc at finite temperature.