title: Nonequilibrium statistical physics with fictitious time.
abstract: Problems in nonequilibrium statistical physics are characterized by the absence of a fluctuation dissipation theorem. The usual analytic route for treating these vast class of problems is to use response fields in addition to the real fields that are pertinent to a given problem. This line of argument was introduced by Martin, Siggia, and Rose. We show that instead of using the response field, one can, following the stochastic quantization of Parisi and Wu, introduce a fictitious time. In this extra dimension a fluctuation dissipation theorem is built in and provides a different outlook to problems in nonequilibrium statistical physics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta 700 032, India. tphss@mahendra.iacs.res.in
authors.forename: Himadri S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Samanta
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Bhattacharjee