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Functional renormalization – concepts and prospects

Functional renormalization – concepts and prospects. physics at different length scales. microscopic theories : where the laws are formulated effective theories : where observations are made effective theory may involve different degrees of freedom as compared to microscopic theory

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Functional renormalization – concepts and prospects

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  1. Functional renormalization –concepts and prospects

  2. physics at different length scales • microscopic theories : where the laws are formulated • effective theories : where observations are made • effective theory may involve different degrees of freedom as compared to microscopic theory • example: the motion of the earth around the sun does not need an understanding of nuclear burning in the sun

  3. QCD : Short and long distance degrees of freedom are different ! Short distances : quarks and gluons Long distances : baryons and mesons How to make the transition? confinement/chiral symmetry breaking

  4. collective degrees of freedom

  5. Hubbard model • Electrons on a cubic lattice here : on planes ( d = 2 ) • Repulsive local interaction if two electrons are on the same site • Hopping interaction between two neighboring sites

  6. In solid state physics : “ model for everything “ • Antiferromagnetism • High Tc superconductivity • Metal-insulator transition • Ferromagnetism

  7. Antiferromagnetism in d=2 Hubbard model U/t = 3 antiferro- magnetic order parameter Tc/t = 0.115 T.Baier, E.Bick,… temperature in units of t

  8. Collective degrees of freedom are crucial ! for T < Tc • nonvanishing order parameter • gap for fermions • low energy excitations: antiferromagnetic spin waves

  9. effective theory / microscopic theory • sometimes only distinguished by different values of couplings • sometimes different degrees of freedom

  10. Functional Renormalization Group describes flow of effective action from small to large length scales perturbative renormalization : case where only couplings change , and couplings are small

  11. How to come from quarks and gluons to baryons and mesons ?How to come from electrons to spin waves ? Find effective description where relevant degrees of freedom depend on momentum scale or resolution in space. Microscope with variable resolution: • High resolution , small piece of volume: quarks and gluons • Low resolution, large volume : hadrons

  12. Wegner, Houghton /

  13. effective average action

  14. Effective average potential :Unified picture for scalar field theorieswith symmetry O(N) in arbitrary dimension d and arbitrary N linear or nonlinear sigma-model for chiral symmetry breaking in QCD or: scalar model for antiferromagnetic spin waves (linear O(3) – model ) fermions will be added later

  15. Effective potential includes all fluctuations

  16. Scalar field theory

  17. Flow equation for average potential

  18. Simple one loop structure –nevertheless (almost) exact

  19. Infrared cutoff

  20. Partial differential equation for function U(k,φ) depending on two ( or more ) variables Z k = c k-η

  21. Regularisation For suitable Rk: • Momentum integral is ultraviolet and infrared finite • Numerical integration possible • Flow equation defines a regularization scheme ( ERGE –regularization )

  22. Momentum integral is dominated by q2 ~ k2 . Flow only sensitive to physics at scale k Integration by momentum shells

  23. Wave function renormalization and anomalous dimension for Zk (φ,q2) : flow equation isexact !

  24. Ising model Flow of effective potential CO2 Critical exponents Experiment : T* =304.15 K p* =73.8.bar ρ* = 0.442 g cm-2 S.Seide …

  25. Critical exponents , d=3

  26. Solution of partial differential equation : yields highly nontrivial non-perturbative results despite the one loop structure ! Example: Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition

  27. Flow equation contains correctly the non-perturbative information ! (essential scaling usually described by vortices) Essential scaling : d=2,N=2 Von Gersdorff …

  28. Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition (d=2,N=2) Correct description of phase with Goldstone boson ( infinite correlation length ) for T<Tc

  29. Running renormalized d-wave superconducting order parameter κ in Hubbard model T>Tc κ Tc T<Tc - ln (k/Λ) C.Krahl,… macroscopic scale 1 cm

  30. Renormalized order parameter κ and gap in electron propagator Δ 100 Δ / t κ jump T/Tc

  31. Temperature dependent anomalous dimension η η T/Tc

  32. Effective average actionand exact renormalization group equation

  33. Generating functional

  34. Effective average action Loop expansion : perturbation theory with infrared cutoff in propagator

  35. Quantum effective action

  36. Exact renormalization group equation

  37. Proof of exact flow equation

  38. Truncations Functional differential equation – cannot be solved exactly Approximative solution by truncationof most general form of effective action

  39. Exact flow equation for effective potential • Evaluate exact flow equation for homogeneous field φ . • R.h.s. involves exact propagator in homogeneous background field φ.

  40. Flow equation for average potential

  41. QCD : Short and long distance degrees of freedom are different ! Short distances : quarks and gluons Long distances : baryons and mesons How to make the transition? confinement/chiral symmetry breaking

  42. Nambu Jona-Lasinio model …and more general quark meson models

  43. Chiral condensate (Nf=2) Berges, Jungnickel,…

  44. Critical temperature , Nf = 2 Lattice simulation J.Berges,D.Jungnickel,…

  45. pion mass sigma mass temperature dependent masses

  46. Criticalequationofstate

  47. Scalingformofequationof state Berges, Tetradis,…

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