scholarly journals Renormalization group consistency and low-energy effective theories

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Braun ◽  
Marc Leonhardt ◽  
Jan M. Pawlowski

Low-energy effective theories have been used very successfully to study the low-energy limit of QCD, providing us with results for a plethora of phenomena, ranging from bound-state formation to phase transitions in QCD. These theories are consistent quantum field theories by themselves and can be embedded in QCD, but typically have a physical ultraviolet cutoff that restricts their range of validity. Here, we provide a discussion of the concept of renormalization group consistency, aiming at an analysis of cutoff effects and regularization-scheme dependences in general studies of low-energy effective theories. For illustration, our findings are applied to low-energy effective models of QCD in different approximations including the mean-field approximation. More specifically, we consider hot and dense as well as finite systems and demonstrate that violations of renormalization group consistency affect significantly the predictive power of the corresponding model calculations.

2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1353-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Elhajal ◽  
B Canals ◽  
C Lacroix

A comparison of the quantum Heisenberg anti-ferromagnetic model on the pyrochlore lattice, the checkerboard lattice, and the square lattice with crossing interactions is performed. The three lattices are constructed with the same tetrahedral unit cell and this property is used to describe the low-energy spectrum by means of an effective Hamiltonian restricted to the singlet sector. We analyze the structure of the effective Hamiltonian and solve it within a mean-field approximation for the three lattices. PACS No.: 75.10Jm


1995 ◽  
Vol 09 (24) ◽  
pp. 1617-1621 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. O. COELHO ◽  
J. A. PLASCAK

The new mean field renormalization group is used to study the Ising model through the calculation of the order parameter by means of the effective field theory based on Callen–Suzuki identity. By considering one- and two-spin clusters, better results are obtained when compared to the previous treatment using the usual mean field approximation.


1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 2447-2454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideki Tanaka ◽  
Kazuhiro Kuboki ◽  
Manfred Sigrist

We study the effect of nonmagnetic impurities in the superconducting state of the t–J model. The Bogoliubov de Gennes equation is derived using a slave-boson mean-field approximation, and we solve it numerically at T = 0. The dx2-y2-wave order parameter is suppressed near an impurity and the extended s-wave component is induced. We also find the local CDW-like feature due to the Friedel oscillations. This leads to the splitting of the expected zero-energy Andreev bound state. Therefore the system is unlikely introducing a localized state of other symmetry such as superconductivity with broken time reversal symmetry or antiferromagnetism.


Author(s):  
Jean Zinn-Justin

In Chapter 14, the singular behavior of ferromagnetic systems with O(N) symmetry and short-range interactions, near a second order phase transition has been determined in the mean-field approximation, which is also a quasi-Gaussian approximation. The mean-field approximation predicts a set of universal properties, properties independent of the detailed structure of the microscopic Hamiltonian, the dimension of space, and, to a large extent, of the symmetry of systems. However, the leading corrections to the mean-field approximation, in dimensions smaller than or equal to four, diverge at the critical temperature, and the universal predictions of the mean-field approximation cannot be correct. Such a problem originates from the non-decoupling of scales and leads to the question of possible universality. In Chapter 9, the question has been answered in four dimensions using renormalization theory, and related renormalization group (RG) equations. Moreover, below four dimensions, in an expansion around the mean-field, the most singular terms near criticality can be also formally recovered from a continuum, low-mass φ4 field theory. More generally, following Wilson, to understand universality beyond the mean-field approximation, it is necessary to build a general renormalization group in the form of flow equations for effective Hamiltonians and to find fixed points of the flow equations. Near four dimensions, the flow equations can be approximated by the renormalization group of quantum field theory (QFT), and the fixed points and critical behaviours derived within the framework of the Wilson-Fisher ϵ expansion.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 1850088
Author(s):  
V. V. Pilipenko ◽  
V. I. Kuprikov

The model of multiple Dirac eikonal scattering (MDES) of incident proton by target-nucleus nucleons is developed, in which new expressions for the elastic [Formula: see text]-scattering amplitudes are obtained from the multiple scattering Watson series with employing the eikonal approximation for the Dirac propagators of the free proton motion between successive scattering acts on nucleons. Based on this model, calculations for the complete set of observables of the elastic [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]Pb at 800[Formula: see text]MeV have been performed, using proton–nucleon amplitudes determined from the phase analysis and the nucleon densities obtained from describing the target-nucleus structure in the relativistic mean-field approximation. A comparison has been made of the results of these calculations with analogous calculations on the basis of the Glauber multiple diffraction theory.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Luca Dell’Anna ◽  
Stefano Grava

We review the study of the superfluid phase transition in a system of fermions whose interaction can be tuned continuously along the crossover from Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) superconducting phase to a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), also in the presence of a spin–orbit coupling. Below a critical temperature the system is characterized by an order parameter. Generally a mean field approximation cannot reproduce the correct behavior of the critical temperature Tc over the whole crossover. We analyze the crucial role of quantum fluctuations beyond the mean-field approach useful to find Tc along the crossover in the presence of a spin–orbit coupling, within a path integral approach. A formal and detailed derivation for the set of equations useful to derive Tc is performed in the presence of Rashba, Dresselhaus and Zeeman couplings. In particular in the case of only Rashba coupling, for which the spin–orbit effects are more relevant, the two-body bound state exists for any value of the interaction, namely in the full crossover. As a result the effective masses of the emerging bosonic excitations are finite also in the BCS regime.


2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1401-1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Bartkowska ◽  
R. Zachariasz ◽  
D. Bochenek ◽  
J. Ilczuk

Abstract In the present work, the magnetoelectric coupling coefficient, from the temperature dependences of the dielectric permittivity for the multiferroic composite was determined. The research material was ferroelectric-ferromagnetic composite on the based PZT and ferrite. We investigated the temperature dependences of the dielectric permittivity (") for the different frequency of measurement’s field. From the dielectric measurements we determined the temperature of phase transition from ferroelectric to paraelectric phase. For the theoretical description of the temperature dependence of the dielectric constant, the Hamiltonian of Alcantara, Gehring and Janssen was used. To investigate the dielectric properties of the multiferroic composite this Hamiltonian was expressed under the mean-field approximation. Based on dielectric measurements and theoretical considerations, the values of the magnetoelectric coupling coefficient were specified.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Catherine Cazelles ◽  
Jorge Linares ◽  
Mamadou Ndiaye ◽  
Pierre-Richard Dahoo ◽  
Kamel Boukheddaden

The properties of spin crossover (SCO) nanoparticles were studied for five 2D hexagonal lattice structures of increasing sizes embedded in a matrix, thus affecting the thermal properties of the SCO region. These effects were modeled using the Ising-like model in the framework of local mean field approximation (LMFA). The systematic combined effect of the different types of couplings, consisting of (i) bulk short- and long-range interactions and (ii) edge and corner interactions at the surface mediated by the matrix environment, were investigated by using parameter values typical of SCO complexes. Gradual two and three hysteretic transition curves from the LS to HS states were obtained. The results were interpreted in terms of the competition between the structure-dependent order and disorder temperatures (TO.D.) of internal coupling origin and the ligand field-dependent equilibrium temperatures (Teq) of external origin.


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