Spatio-temporal Chaos & Vacuum Fluctuations Of Quantized Fields

Download or read book Spatio-temporal Chaos & Vacuum Fluctuations Of Quantized Fields written by Christian Beck and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.