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The present paper is the second of a series of publications that aim at investigating relevant directions to turn the nuclear energy density functional (EDF) method as an effective field theory (EFT). The EDF approach has known numerous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-07 Kilian Fraboulet , Jean-Paul Ebran

Renormalization Group (RG) techniques have been successfully employed in quantum field theory and statistical physics. Here we apply RG methods to study the non-linear stages of structure formation in the Universe. Exact equations for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Sabino Matarrese , Massimo Pietroni

We propose a new concept upon the renormalization group (RG) procedure for an interacting many-electron correlated system in the framework of natural orbitals, and formulate an algorithm for this RG approach. To demonstrate its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-17 Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

Evolution of the concept known in the theoretical physics as the Renormalization Group (RG) is presented. The corresponding symmetry, that has been first introduced in QFT in mid-fifties, is a continuous symmetry of a solution with respect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitrij V. Shirkov , Vladimir F. Kovalev

A simple class of unitary renormalization group transformations that force hamiltonians towards a band-diagonal form produce few-body interactions in which low- and high-energy states are decoupled, which can greatly simplify many-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. K. Bogner , R. J. Furnstahl , R. J. Perry

In nuclear physics, Density Functional Theory (DFT) provides the basis for state-of-the art studies of ground-state properties of heavy nuclei. However, the direct relation of the density functional underlying these calculations and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Sandra Kemler , Martin Pospiech , Jens Braun

We propose a new implementation of real-space renormalization group (RG) transformations for quantum states on a lattice. Key to this approach is the removal of short-ranged entanglement, similar to Vidal's entanglement renormalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Glen Evenbly

Applications of the similarity renormalization group (SRG) approach [F. Wegner, Ann. Phys. 506, 77 (1994), S. D. G{\l}azek and K. G. Wilson, Phys. Rev. D 49, 4214 (1994)] to the formulation of useful many-body theories of electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Francesco A. Evangelista

Renormalization group methods are well-established tools for the (numerical) investigation of the low-energy properties of correlated quantum many-body systems, allowing to capture their scale-dependent nature. The functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-09 Dominik Kiese , Tobias Mueller , Yasir Iqbal , Ronny Thomale , Simon Trebst

We present a new ab-initio method that uses similarity renormalization group (SRG) techniques to continuously diagonalize nuclear many-body Hamiltonians. In contrast with applications of the SRG to two- and three-nucleon interactions in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 K. Tsukiyama , S. K. Bogner , A. Schwenk

Renormalization group (RG) invariance implies that the predictions of effective field theory are independent of the momentum cutoffs introduced during regularization. Here we report the first systematic verification of RG invariance for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Jia-Ai Shi , Chen-Can Wang , Bing-Nan Lu

I perform a further study regarding a renormalization-group (RG) issue -- which concerns a wide variety of the so-called perturbative power counting under effective field theories (EFT) -- as pointed out by A. M. Gasparyan and E. Epelbaum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 C. -J. Yang

These lectures contain an introduction to modern renormalization group (RG) methods as well as functional RG approaches to gauge theories. In the first lecture, the functional renormalization group is introduced with a focus on the flow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Holger Gies

I give an outline of recent applications of the renormalisation group to effective theories of nuclear forces, focussing on the use of a Wilsonian approach to analyse systems of two or three nonrelativistic particles.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael C. Birse

The role of radiative corrections in low energy nuclear physics is beginning to receive more scrutiny. We examine the impact of these corrections for the deuteron charge form factor and the radiative capture process $np \to d \gamma$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Thomas R. Richardson , Immo C. Reis

The renormalization group (RG) is a powerful theoretical framework developed to consistently transform the description of configurations of systems with many degrees of freedom, along with the associated model parameters and coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-20 Andrea Gabrielli , Diego Garlaschelli , Subodh P. Patil , M. Ángeles Serrano

The detection of gravitational waves has intensified the need for efficient, high-precision modeling of the two-body problem in General Relativity. Current analytical methods, primarily the Post-Minkowskian and Post-Newtonian expansions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 F. Gutiérrez , K. Falls , A. Codello

We present an improved action for Pionless Effective Field Theory (EFT). Previous formulations of renormalizable nuclear EFTs have encountered instabilities in systems with more than four nucleons. We resolve this issue by introducing a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 L. Contessi , M. Schäfer , A. Gnech , A. Lovato , U. van Kolck

We present the real-time renormalization group (RTRG) method as a method to describe the stationary state current through generic multi-level quantum dots with a complex setup in nonequilibrium. The employed approach consists of a very…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-28 Carsten J. Lindner , Fabian B. Kugler , Volker Meden , Herbert Schoeller

The Functional Renormalisation Group approach is applied the imbalanced many-fermion systems. The system is found to exhibit the first order phase transition from the superfluid to normal phase when the density (chemical potential) mismatch…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-20 Boris Krippa