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Discovering and quantifying nontrivial fixed points in multi-field models

We use the functional renormalization group and the [Formula: see text] -expansion concertedly to explore multicritical universality classes for coupled [Formula: see text] vector-field models in three Euclidean dimensions. Exploiting the complementary strengths of these two methods we show how to m...

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Autores principales: Eichhorn, A., Helfer, T., Mesterházy, D., Scherer, M. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4811050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3921-3
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author Eichhorn, A.
Helfer, T.
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description We use the functional renormalization group and the [Formula: see text] -expansion concertedly to explore multicritical universality classes for coupled [Formula: see text] vector-field models in three Euclidean dimensions. Exploiting the complementary strengths of these two methods we show how to make progress in theories with large numbers of interactions, and a large number of possible symmetry-breaking patterns. For the three- and four-field models we find a new fixed point that arises from the mutual interaction between different field sectors, and we establish the absence of infrared-stable fixed-point solutions for the regime of small [Formula: see text] . Moreover, we explore these systems as toy models for theories that are both asymptotically safe and infrared complete. In particular, we show that these models exhibit complete renormalization group trajectories that begin and end at nontrivial fixed points.
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spelling pubmed-48110502016-04-09 Discovering and quantifying nontrivial fixed points in multi-field models Eichhorn, A. Helfer, T. Mesterházy, D. Scherer, M. M. Eur Phys J C Part Fields Regular Article - Theoretical Physics We use the functional renormalization group and the [Formula: see text] -expansion concertedly to explore multicritical universality classes for coupled [Formula: see text] vector-field models in three Euclidean dimensions. Exploiting the complementary strengths of these two methods we show how to make progress in theories with large numbers of interactions, and a large number of possible symmetry-breaking patterns. For the three- and four-field models we find a new fixed point that arises from the mutual interaction between different field sectors, and we establish the absence of infrared-stable fixed-point solutions for the regime of small [Formula: see text] . Moreover, we explore these systems as toy models for theories that are both asymptotically safe and infrared complete. In particular, we show that these models exhibit complete renormalization group trajectories that begin and end at nontrivial fixed points. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-02-19 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4811050/ /pubmed/27069417 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3921-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3.
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title_short Discovering and quantifying nontrivial fixed points in multi-field models
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4811050/
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