Fifty years of Wilsonian renormalization and counting
Statistical Mechanics
2024-09-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Renormalization began as a tool to eliminate divergences in quantum electrodynamics but it is now the basis of our understanding of physics at different energy scales. I review its evolution with an eye towards physics beyond the Wilsonian paradigm.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.02484,
title = {Fifty years of Wilsonian renormalization and counting},
author = {Philip W. Phillips},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02484},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Invited Review to appear in Nature Physics on the 50th anniversary of Wilson's RG