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Abstract
The quantum thermodynamics of the nonintegrable ${\ensuremath{\varphi}}^{4}$ one-dimensional chain is studied by means of a classical effective potential, which includes in a fully quantum way the linear modes of the field. In contrast to the case of the sine-Gordon chain, integrable in the continuum limit, exact results are not available, so that approximate quantum calculations appear to be useful. This effective potential is determined by a variational approach developed in previous papers, which is based on the path-integral formulation of statistical mechanics. The temperature renormalization is studied, in the limit of low temperature, by means of a self-consistent saddle-point method, both for the vacuum and the one-kink sectors, and the results of the semiclassical approximation are recovered. Important results are obtained by a new low-coupling expansion for the effective potential. Its range of validity in temperature is much wider than the range of previous high-temperature expansions. The results for the nonlinear contributions to internal energy and specific heat, obtained by means of original transfer-matrix computations, are finally presented and discussed.
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