: Often referred to as the Matsubara formalism, this approach replaces time with an imaginary variable proportional to the inverse temperature ( ), leading to discrete Matsubara frequencies .
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: Detailed treatment of both real-time and imaginary-time formalisms for relativistic fields. covers lattice and heavy-ion | Experimentalists