Spatio-Temporal Chaos & Vacuum Fluctuations of Quantized Fields (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810247980)

This book describes new applications for spatio-temporal chaotic dynamical systems in elementary particle physics and quantum field theories. The stochastic quantization approach of Parisi and Wu is extended to more general deterministic chaotic processes as generated by coupled map lattices. In particular, so-called chaotic strings are introduced as a suitable small-scale dynamics of vacuum fluctuations. This more general approach to second quantization reduces to the ordinary stochastic quantization scheme on large scales, but it also opens up interesting new perspectives: chaotic strings appear to minimize their vacuum energy for the observed numerical values of the free standard model parameters.

Author: Christian Beck
ISBN-10: 9810247982
ISBN-13: 9789810247980
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2002
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.06w x 0.74d