NOISE and ULTRAVIOLET DIVERGENCES IN SIMULATIONS of GINZBURG-LANDAU-LANGEVIN TYPE of EQUATIONS

Abstract

The time evolution of an order parameter towards equilibrium can be described by nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau (GL) type of equations, also known as time-dependent nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Environmental effects of random nature are usually taken into account by noise sources, turning the GL equations into stochastic equations. Noise sources give rise to lattice-spacing dependence of the solutions of the stochastic equations. We present a systematic method to renormalize the equations on a spatial lattice to obtain lattice-spacing independent solutions. We illustrate the method in approximation schemes designed to treat nonlinear and nonlocal GL equations that appear in real time thermal field theory and stochastic quantization.