A Gaussian approximation to the effective potential
This thesis investigates some of the properties of a variational approximation to scalar field theories: a trial wavefunctional which has a gaussian form is used as a ground state ansatz for an interacting scalar field theory - the expectation value of the Hamiltonian in this state is then minimized...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26500 |