Non-local effects at the onset of the chiral transition

Abstract

Inspired by analytic results obtained for a systematic expansion of the memory kernel in dissipative quantum mechanics, we propose a phenomenological procedure to incorporate non-markovian corrections to the Langevin dynamics of an order parameter in field theory systematically. In this note, we restrict our analysis to the onset of the evolution. As an example, we consider the process of phase conversion in the chiral transition.

4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of I Latin American Workshop on High Energy Phenomenology (LAWHEP 2005), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1-3 Dec 2005