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Taming the 3D Wilson-Fisher Fixed Point via Nonlocal Effective Action

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-05-22 v3

Abstract

We present a novel Renormalization Group (RG) framework based on a nonlocal effective action ansatz to tame the strong coupling dynamics of the three-dimensional relativistic ϕ4\phi^{4} theory. By implementing a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, we decouple the quartic interaction into a system of the primary field ϕ\phi and an auxiliary field φϕ2\varphi \sim \phi^2. Rather than freezing the intermediate scaling dimensions, the nonlocality of our effective action allows both exponents Δϕ\Delta_{\phi} and Δφ\Delta_{\varphi} to act as fully independent, unconstrained dynamical variables. This nonlocal propagator framework plays a critical role in the RG flow: evaluating field self-energies at the one-loop order and vertex fluctuations up to the non-vanishing two-loop skeleton order, the underlying Ward-like structural identities drive precise cross-cancellations among multi-loop fluctuations near the ``Gaussian'' limit. Solving the resulting closed two-variable master equations isolates a robust, non-trivial physical fixed point at Δϕ0.9814\Delta_{\phi}^* \approx 0.9814 and Δφ0.4148\Delta_{\varphi}^* \approx 0.4148. These dynamic exponents yield a kinematic anomalous dimension ηϕ0.0372\eta_{\phi} \approx \mathbf{0.0372}, an energy operator dimension Δϕ21.4148\Delta_{\phi^2} \approx \mathbf{1.4148}, and -- via mass deformation -- a thermal correlation length exponent ν0.6308\nu \approx \mathbf{0.6308}, demonstrating exceptional quantitative agreement with high-precision Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) and conformal bootstrap benchmarks. Our results rigorously confirm that unfreezing the nonlocal degrees of freedom successfully eliminates the systematic truncation errors inherent to conventional local ansatz treatments, simultaneously resolving both the static scaling and thermodynamic flows of the Wilson-Fisher universality class.

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@article{arxiv.2605.18148,
  title  = {Taming the 3D Wilson-Fisher Fixed Point via Nonlocal Effective Action},
  author = {Seung-Jong Yoo and Hyeon Jung Kim and Jinmo Bok and Lemuel John Sese and Semin Park and Ki-Seok Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18148},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Serious errors in vertex corrections have been corrected