English

A nonperturbative study of three-dimensional phi^4 theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-25 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The spherical field formalism---a nonperturbative approach to quantum field theory---was recently introduced and applied to phi^4 theory in two dimensions. The spherical field method reduces a quantum field theory to a finite-dimensional quantum mechanical system by expanding field configurations in terms of spherical partial wave modes. We extend the formalism to phi^4 theory in three dimensions and demonstrate the application of the method by analyzing the phase structure of this theory.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002243,
  title  = {A nonperturbative study of three-dimensional phi^4 theory},
  author = {Mark Windoloski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002243},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages, 10 figures. v2: acknowledgement added. v3: table and references added