Quantum fluctuations in hydrodynamics and quantum long-time tails

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22140v1
• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:56:22 GMT
• Title: Quantum fluctuations in hydrodynamics and quantum long-time tails
• Authors: Akash Jain,
• Abstract summary: We construct a quantum Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory for the diffusive hydrodynamics of a conserved scalar field.<n>We compute one-loop quantum corrections to the two-point density-density retarded correlation function, leading to a quantum symmetry of long-time tails.
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• Abstract: We construct a quantum Schwinger-Keldysh (SK) effective field theory for the diffusive hydrodynamics of a conserved scalar field. Quantum corrections within the SK framework are guided by fluctuation-dissipation relations, enforced via a dynamical Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) symmetry. We find that the KMS symmetry necessarily generates fluctuation contributions in the SK effective action at all orders in the noise field, thereby giving rise to intrinsically non-Gaussian noise. We use our results to compute one-loop quantum corrections to the two-point density-density retarded correlation function, leading to a quantum generalization of hydrodynamic long-time tails. Our results apply at arbitrarily high orders in $\hbar$. The one-loop results for retarded correlation functions have been expressed in terms of a family of polynomials. We also provide a closed-form expression for the one-loop results at leading order in the wavevector expansion.

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