Spectral Analysis of Weakly Coupled Stochastic Lattice Ginzburg–Landau Models

Abstract:

We consider the relaxation to equilibrium of solutions \(\), t>0, \(\), of stochastic dynamical Langevin equations with white noise and weakly coupled Ginzburg–Landau interactions. Using a Feynman–Kac formula, which relates stochastic expectations to correlation functions of a spatially non-local imaginary time quantum field theory, we obtain results on the joint spectrum of H, \(\), where H is the self-adjoint, positive, generator of the semi-group associated with the dynamics, and P ^j , j= 1, …, d are the self-adjoint generators of the group of lattice spatial translations. We show that the low-lying energy-momentum spectrum consists of an isolated one-particle dispersion curve and, for the mass spectrum (energy-momentum at zero-momentum), besides this isolated one-particle mass, we show, using a Bethe–Salpeter equation, the existence of an isolated two-particle bound state if the coefficient of the quartic term in the polynomial of the Ginzburg–Landau interaction is negative and d= 1, 2; otherwise, there is no two-particle bound state. Asymptotic values for the masses are obtained.