3.5 Field Theoretic Form 81
The problem cast in the form of Eqns.(3.5.7) and (3.5.8) looks very much like
the problem in statics - set up a free energy functional (statics) and then evaluate
the partition function. The action S(φ,
˜
φ) of Eq(2.5.8) is the analogue of the free
energy functional and the Z(φ,
˜
φ) of Eq.(3.5.7) is the ‘partition function’.
The physical meaning of the field
˜
φ can be seen from the Eqns(3.5.7) and
(3.5.8), if we add an external force
F to the equation of motion in Eq.(3.5.1). The
response function χ is then given by
χ =
δφ(r
1
,t
1
)
δF(r
2
,t
2
)
f →0
=φ(r
1
,t
1
)
˜
φ(r
2
,t
2
) (3.5.9)
Thus the response function is cast as a correlation function and we can now write
down the response and correlation function by an inspection of the action in mo-
mentum and frequency space.
S =
d
D
k
(2π)
D
dω
2π
[−
˜
φ(k, ω)
˜
φ(−k, −ω)
+
˜
φ(−k, −ω){−iω+(k
2
+m
2
)}
˜
φ(k, ω)] (3.5.10)
Evaluation of the Gaussian functional integral to obtain the correlation function
˜
φ(k, ω)
˜
φ(−k, −ω)and φ(k,ω)φ(−k, −ω)leads to the answers written down
in Eqns.(3.5.4) and (3.5.5).
In general the action will not be quadratic. If we consider the full model A with
the equation of motion given by Eq.(2.4.2) with the free energy given by Eq.(2.4.1),
the action will be
S =
d
D
k
(2π)
D
dω
2π
−
˜
φ(k, ω)
˜
φ(−k, −ω) +
˜
φ(−k, −ω){−iω+(k
2
+m
2
)}
×
˜
φ(k, ω)+u
˜
φ(−k, −ω)
φ(
k −p
1
−p
2
,ω−ω
1
−ω
2
)
× φ(p
1
,ω
1
)φ( p
2
,ω
2
) (3.5.11)
The kinetic coefficient now needs a renormalization constant Z to render the dy-
namic correlations finite because of the quartic term in the action. For the Heisen-
berg model of Eq.(3.4.2), the action will be
S =
d
D
k
(2π)
D
dω
2π
−
˜
φ
α
(k, ω)
˜
φ
α
(−k, −ω) +
˜
φ
α
(−k, −ω)
{−iω +(k
2
+m
2
)}
×
˜
φ
α
(k, ω) −g
p,ω
˜
φ
α
(−k, −ω)
˜
φ
β
(p, ω
)
˜
φ
γ
(
k −p, ω −ω
)
[p
2
−(
k −p)
2
]
(3.5.12)
Once again the non-quadratic term will renormalize the kinetic coefficient and
the calculation will parallel the field theoretic treatment in statics.