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We study the problem of the computation of the effective diffusion constant of a Brownian particle diffusing in a random potential which is given by a function $V(\phi)$ of a Gaussian field $\phi$. A self similar renormalization group…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-27 David S. Dean , Clement Touya

Functional renormalization group equations are analytically continued from imaginary Matsubara frequencies to the real frequency axis. On the example of a scalar field with O(N) symmetry we discuss the analytic structure of the flowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-20 Stefan Floerchinger

In this work, we investigate the consequences of the Renormalization Group Equation (RGE) in the determination of the effective potential and the study of Dynamical Symmetry Breaking (DSB) in an Gross-Neveu (GN) model with N fermions fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-22 A. G. Quinto , R. Vega Monroy , A. F. Ferrari

We investigate the dissipation rate of a scalar field in the vicinity of the phase transition and the ordered phase, specifically within the universality class of model A. This dissipation rate holds significant physical relevance,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-03 Laura Batini , Eduardo Grossi , Nicolas Wink

We consider derivation of the effective potential for a scalar field in curved space-time within the physical regularization scheme, using two sorts of covariant cut-off regularizations. The first one is based on the local momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Flavia Sobreira , Baltazar J. Ribeiro , Ilya L. Shapiro

In the spirit of classic works of Wilson on the renormalization group and operator product expansion, a new framework for the study of the theory space of euclidean quantum field theories has been introduced. This formalism is particularly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 B. Mikhak , A. M. Zarkesh

We explore the classical and quantum properties of a sterile scalar field coupled to $N$ copies of Dirac fermions in an external gravitational field. We find that the self-interaction scalar potential of a model that is consistent at the…

The fourth derivative models for two dimensional gravity are shown to be equivalent to the special version of the nonlinear sigma models coupled to 2d quantum gravity. The reduction consists in the introduction of the auxiliary scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 I. L. Shapiro

We develop a theory of nonlinear cosmological perturbations on superhorizon scales for a multi-component scalar field with a general kinetic term and a general form of the potential in the context of inflationary cosmology. We employ the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-25 Atsushi Naruko , Yu-ichi Takamizu , Misao Sasaki

We focus on the use of the functional Wilsonian renormalization group framework characterized by a proper time regulator and test its use in the search of the scaling solutions and the critical properties of an O(N)-invariant scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Alfio M. Bonanno , Emiliano M. Glaviano , Gian Paolo Vacca

We analyze quantum tunneling with the Ohmic dissipation by the non-perturbative renormalization group method. We calculate the localization susceptibility to evaluate the critical dissipation for the quantum-classical transition, and find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ken-Ichi Aoki , Atsushi Horikoshi

We study scaling properties of the model of fully developed turbulence for a compressible fluid, based on the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation, by means of the field theoretic renormalization group (RG). The scaling properties in this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-07 N. V. Antonov , N. M. Gulitskiy , M. M. Kostenko , T. Lučivjanský

We critically review the use of the exact renormalization group equations (ERGE) in the framework of the scalar theory. We lay emphasis on the existence of different versions of the ERGE and on an approximation method to solve it: the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 C. Bagnuls , C. Bervillier

Using the renormalisation group and a conjecture concerning the perturbation series for the effective potential, the leading logarithms in the effective potential are exactly summed for $O(N)$ scalar and Yukawa theories.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Chris Ford

We apply the functional renormalization group to Starobinsky's stochastic equation describing the local dynamics of a light scalar field in de Sitter. After elaborating on the over-damped regime of stochastic dynamics, we introduce an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Tomislav Prokopec , Gerasimos Rigopoulos

We compute the four-point correlation function of a light O(N) scalar field in de Sitter space in the large-N limit. For superhorizon momentum modes, infrared effects strongly enhance the size of loop contributions. We find that in the deep…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Julien Serreau

We investigate the convergence of the derivative expansion of the exact renormalisation group, by using it to compute the beta function of scalar theory. We demonstrate that the derivative expansion of the Polchinski flow equation converges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 John F. Tighe

These introductory notes are about functional renormalization group equations and some of their applications. It is emphasised that the applicability of this method extends well beyond critical systems, it actually provides us a general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Janos Polonyi

Over the last several years, there has been a resurgence of interest in using non-perturbative approximation methods based on Wilson's continuous renormalization group. In this lecture, I review progress particularly in the past year,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim R. Morris

We derive an exact version of the Schwinger Proper Time Renormalisation Group flow equation from first principles from the complete path integral, without using any perturbative expansion. We study the advantages of this flow equation as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Steven Abel , Lucien Heurtier