Resumming the large-N approximation for time evolving quantum systems

Abstract

In this paper we discuss two methods of resumming the leading and next to leading order in 1/N diagrams for the quartic O(N) model. These two approaches have the property that they preserve both boundedness and positivity for expectation values of operators in our numerical simulations. These approximations can be understood either in terms of a truncation to the infinitely coupled Schwinger-Dyson hierarchy of equations, or by choosing a particular two-particle irreducible vacuum energy graph in the effective action of the Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis formalism. We confine our discussion to the case of quantum mechanics where the Lagrangian is $L(x,\dot{x})=(1/2){\sum }_{i=1}^N{\dot{x}}_i^2-(g/8N)[{\sum }_{i=1}^N{x}_i^2-r_0^2{]}^2$. The key to these approximations is to treat both the $x$ propagator and the $x^2$ propagator on similar footing which leads to a theory whose graphs have the same topology as QED with the $x^2$ propagator playing the role of the photon. The bare vertex approximation is obtained by replacing the exact vertex function by the bare one in the exact Schwinger-Dyson equations for the one and two point functions. The second approximation, which we call the dynamic Debye screening approximation, makes the further approximation of replacing the exact $x^2$ propagator by its value at leading order in the 1/N expansion. These two approximations are compared with exact numerical simulations for the quantum roll problem. The bare vertex approximation captures the physics at large and modest $N$ better than the dynamic Debye screening approximation.

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