Classical Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories for a Real Scalar Field

Abstract

A classical nonrelativistic effective field theory for a real Lorentz-scalar field $\varphi$ is most conveniently formulated in terms of a complex scalar field $\psi$. There have been two derivations of effective Lagrangians for the complex field $\psi$ in which terms in the effective potential were determined to order $({\psi }^{\ast }\psi {)}^4$. We point out an error in each of the effective Lagrangians. After correcting the errors, we demonstrate the equivalence of the two effective Lagrangians by verifying that they both reproduce $T$-matrix elements of the relativistic real scalar field theory and by also constructing a redefinition of the complex field $\psi$ that transforms terms in one effective Lagrangian into the corresponding terms of the other.

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