Thermal Field Theories: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and Their Applications Tsubuka, Japan July 23-27, 1990 (North-holland Delta Series)

Theories of quantum fields at non-zero temperature have been steadily developed for well over a decade. In 1988, as a result of the increased demand for communication among theorists working in different fields ranging from condensed matter physics to high energy physics and astrophysics, the first international meeting was organized (the proceedings of which have been published in Physica A 158, 1989) . This 2nd workshop covers similar fields, namely equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, quantum optics, high-temperature gauge-field theories, string theories, statistical theories of gravitation and cosmology. The resulting proceedings reflect the progress made in the respective fields, identify the major common problems and suggest possible directions for their solutions. Content: Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv PREFACE , Pages v-vi , Hiroshi Ezawa, Toshihico Arimitsu, Yukio Hashimoto COMMITTEES , Page vii Participants Photograph , Pages viii-xi OPENING ADDRESS , Pages 1-2 , Toshio MARUMORI EMERGING BROKEN SYMMETRY IN SPACE AND TIME , Pages 5-15 , Masuo Suzuki DERIVATIVE EXPANSION METHOD IN SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY THEORY , Pages 17-25 , Ch.G. van WEERT AN ANALOGICAL “THERMAL-FIELD” STRUCTURE FOR BIOLOGICAL SPACE-TIME , Pages 27-41 , G. Rickey WELCH A Projection Operator Approach to Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics , Pages 43-52 , M. Ichiyanagi, RETARDED FORMULATION AT FINITE TEMPERATURE , Pages 53-67 , H. MATSUMOTO EXTENSION OF THE THERMAL RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION BY THE THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS , Pages 69-77 , Kosai TANABE Quantum Field Theory of Thermal Diffusion , Pages 79-94 , Keiji WATANABE, Koichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi EZAWA RENORMALIZED DENSITY OF STATES IN CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES , Pages 95-103 , D. BOYANOVSKY, R. HOLMAN Closed Time Path Green's Function and Its Applications in Transport Theory , Pages 107-121 , Zhao-Bin Su, Lu Yu, Liao-Yuan Chen NON EQUILIBRIUM QUANTUM FIELDS IN COSMOLOGY , Pages 123-137 , Juan Pablo Paz PERTURBATION THEORY IN EQUILIBRIUM AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM , Pages 139-152 , Ferdinando MANCINI Comparing graphs in the imaginary time and real time formalisms , Pages 153-162 , R. Kobes FINITE-TEMPERATURE REACTION RATES AND THEIR INFRARED STRUCTURE , Pages 163-172 , A. NIÉGAWA Origin of Non-Quantum Noise and Time Dependent Thermo Field Dynamics , Pages 175-188 , H. Umezawa DAMPING AND THERMAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORY , Pages 189-200 , E. CELEGHINI, M. RASETTI, G. VITIELLO Thermal Coherent and Thermal Squeezed States , Pages 201-205 , H. Ezawa, A. Mann, K. Nakamura, M. Revzen NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS AND THERMAL PROCESSES , Pages 207-221 , Toshihico ARIMITSU A MICROSCOPIC THEORY OF DISSIPATIVE NUCLEAR COLLECTIVE MOTIONS , Pages 223-231 , Y. HASHIMOTO,, K. IWASAWA, T. MARUMORI, F. SAKATA STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY , Pages 233-252 , B.L. Hu INCREASE OF COLLISION RATES NEAR PHASE INSTABILITY , Pages 255-261 , Ludwig MÜNCHOW TIME-DEPENDEDENT HARTREE-FOCK APPROACH TO MIXED STATES , Pages 263-271 , Atsushi KURIYAMA,, Joãoda PROVIDĚNCIA, Masatoshi YAMAMURA STOCHASTIC QUANTUM GRAVITY—(2+1)-DIMENSIONAL CASE , Pages 273-281 , Akio HOSOYA Sphalerons and CP violation , Pages 283-294 , S. Yu. Khlebnikov Fluctuations and the Cosmic String Phase Transition , Pages 295-304 , E. Copeland,, S. Holbraad,, R. Rivers, REGULARIZATION OF THERMAL STRING THEORIES , Pages 305-313 , M. Knecht, Y. Leblanc, J.C. Wallet QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND MULTIPLICATIVE NUMBER THEORY , Pages 315-323 , Mark J. Bowick Thermal Effects on String Decay Rates and the Hagedorn Temperature , Pages 325-334 , Akihiko Tsuchiya, Hidehiko Okada STRONGLY COUPLED QED ON A LATTICE , Pages 335-346 , Elbio DAGOTTO THE LATTICE TOPOLOGICAL GAUGE THEORY. CONSTRUCTION AND OBSERVABLES , Pages 347-355 , Al. R. KAVALOV, R.L. MK HYAN LIGHT RELATIVISTIC BOUND STATES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE QCD , Pages 357-363 , Ismail Zahed DO GLUONS CONDENSE AT FINITE TEMPERATURE? , Pages 365-373 , Kari ENQVIST CROSSING PROPERTIES OF PHOTON INTERACTIONS WITH QUARK-GLUON PLASMA AT FINITE TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY , Pages 375-390 , J. CLEYMANS, I. DADIĆ Gauge Independence of Plasma Parameters in Thermal Gauge Theories , Pages 391-405 , Anton Rebhan A 0 , P and Deconfinement , Pages 407-421 , Michael Ogilvie CHIRAL ANOMALIES IN QED AND QCD AT FINITE TEMPERATURE , Pages 423-430 , Ramon F. ALVAREZ-ESTRADA LEADING T 3 -BEHAVIOR AND VERTEX-CONFIGURATION DEPENDENCE OF REAL-TIME THERMAL QCD COUPLING , Pages 431-437 , Hisao NAKKAGAWA N-POINT FUNCTIONS IN IMAGINARY- AND REALTIME FINITE-TEMPERATURE FORMALISMS , Pages 441-447 , T.S. EVANS A LOWER DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM AT FINITE TEMPERATURE — Applications of Improved 1/ N Expansion — , Pages 449-458 , Yoshimasa NAKANO A NEW ASPECT WITHIN NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS , Pages 459-468 , Masashi BAN,, Toshihico ARIMITSU, Takeshi SAITO TRANSIENT RESONANT LIGHT SCATTERING FOR A LOCALIZED ELECTRON-PHONON SYSTEM WITHIN NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMO FIELD DYNAMICS , Pages 469-479 , Tomio IWASAKI, Toshihico ARIMITSU, Frederick H. WILLEBOORDSE A Calculational Scheme For Nonequilibrium Quantum Field System , Pages 481-490 , Y. Yamanaka CJT Effective Action on the Real Time Contour , Pages 491-496 , M. Lutz SPIN DEPOLARIZATION OF A QUANTUM PARTICLE; FERMIONIC PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH , Pages 497-505 , Masato Nakamura STOCHASTIC LEARNING EQUATION IN A NEURAL FIELD , Pages 507-512 , Hiroaki HARA, Yoshiyasu H. TAMURA REGRESSION LAW OF FLUCTUATIONS AND SELF-SIMILARITY LAW AT A CRITICAL POINT IN DIFFUSION-REACTION PROCESSES , Pages 513-519 , Moyuru OCHIAI, Arno HOLZ, Yoshitake YAMAZAKI, Riko OZAO Parasupersymmetric Quantum Mechanics at Finite Temperature , Pages 521-528 , Ikuo ITO, Tadashi KON NEW NON-EQUILIBRIUM REGIMES OF THE RESERVOIR MODEL , Pages 529-538 , Y. GEORGELIN, Y. LEBLANC Rindler Noise in the Flat Spacetime with a Boundary , Pages 539-548 , Kouji OHNISHI, Shin TAKAGI THE BLOCH-MESSIAH THEOREM FOR THE THERMAL HARTREE-FOCK — BOGOLIUBOV THEORY , Pages 549-555 , Kosai TANABE ABOUT LONG RANGE PAIRING CORRELATIONS IN THE HUBBARD AND U-t-t’ MODELS , Pages 557-566 , A. MOREO INFLATION INDUCED BY WORMHOLE , Pages 567-571 , Shoichi MIDORIKAWA CAUSALITY IN FINITE TEMPERATURE QUANTUM FIELD THEORY , Pages 573-582 , Juan Pablo Paz ANOMALOUS QED MAGNETIC MOMENT AT FINITE CHEMICAL POTENTIAL , Pages 583-590 , Per Elmfors, Bo-Sture Skagerstam LIST OF PARTICIPANTS , Pages 591-593 AUTHOR INDEX , Pages 595-596 SUBJECT INDEX , Pages 597-606