دورية أكاديمية

A microscopic, non-equilibrium, statistical field theory for cosmic structure formation

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العنوان: A microscopic, non-equilibrium, statistical field theory for cosmic structure formation
المؤلفون: Matthias Bartelmann, Felix Fabis, Daniel Berg, Elena Kozlikin, Robert Lilow, Celia Viermann
المصدر: New Journal of Physics, Vol 18, Iss 4, p 043020 (2016)
بيانات النشر: IOP Publishing, 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: LCC:Science
LCC:Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: cosmology, structure formation, non-equilibrium statistics, nonlinear evolution, Science, Physics, QC1-999
الوصف: Building upon the recent pioneering work by Mazenko and by Das and Mazenko, we develop a microscopic, non-equilibrium, statistical field theory for initially correlated canonical ensembles of classical microscopic particles obeying Hamiltonian dynamics. Our primary target is cosmic structure formation, where initial Gaussian correlations in phase space are believed to be set by inflation. We give an exact expression for the generating functional of this theory and work out suitable approximations. We specify the initial correlations by a power spectrum and derive general expressions for the correlators of the density and the response field. We derive simple closed expressions for the lowest-order contributions to the nonlinear cosmological power spectrum, valid for arbitrary wave numbers. We further calculate the bispectrum expected in this theory within these approximations and the power spectrum of cosmic density fluctuations to first order in the gravitational interaction, using a recent improvement of the Zel’dovich approximation. We show that, with a modification motivated by the adhesion approximation, the nonlinear growth of the density power spectrum found in numerical simulations of cosmic structure evolution is reproduced well to redshift zero and for arbitrary wave numbers even within first-order perturbation theory. Our results present the first fully analytic calculation of the nonlinear power spectrum of cosmic structures.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1367-2630
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043020
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/d44e76c0da784632b2f485fb2f486b34
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.44e76c0da784632b2f485fb2f486b34
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:13672630
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043020