Nonlinear Science Webinar

Abstract

It has long been known that weakly nonlinear field theories can have a late-time stationary state that is not the thermal state, but a wave turbulent state (the Kolmogorov-Zakharov state) with a far-from-equilibrium cascade of energy. We go beyond the existence of the wave turbulent state, studying fluctuations about the wave turbulent state. Specifically, we take a classical field theory with an arbitrary quartic interaction and add dissipation and Gaussian-random forcing. Employing the path integral relation  between stochastic classical field theories and quantum field theories, we give a prescription, in terms of  Feynman diagrams, for computing correlation functions in this system.  We explicitly compute the two-point and four-point functions of the field to next-to-leading order in the coupling. Through an appropriate choice of forcing and dissipation, these correspond to correlation functions in the wave turbulent state. As a check, we  reproduce the next-to-leading order term in the kinetic equation.  The correlation functions and corrections to the KZ state that we compute should, in principle, be experimentally measurable quantities.

ar5iv.org/abs/2203.08168