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A new exact renormalization group equation for the effective average action of Euclidean quantum gravity is constructed. It is formulated in terms of the component fields appearing in the transverse-traceless decomposition of the metric. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Lauscher , M. Reuter

The methods of the renormalization group and the $\varepsilon$-expansion are applied to quantum gravity revealing the existence of an asymptotically safe fixed point in spacetime dimensions higher than two. To facilitate this, physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-04 Kevin Falls

Understanding physical properties of quantum emitters strongly interacting with quantized electromagnetic modes is one of the primary goals in the emergent field of waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED). When the light-matter coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Yuto Ashida , Takeru Yokota , Atac Imamoglu , Eugene Demler

A nonperturbative approach is developed to analyze superconducting circuits coupled to quantized electromagnetic continuum within the framework of the functional renormalization group. The formalism allows us to determine complete physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Takeru Yokota , Kanta Masuki , Yuto Ashida

We continue the study of the ultraviolet problem for QED in d=3 using Balaban's formulation of the renormalization group. The model is defined on a fine toroidal lattice and we seek control as the lattice spacing goes to zero. Drawing on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 J. Dimock

We present a comprehensive non-perturbative study of the phase structure of the asymptotically safe Standard Model. The physics scales included range from the asymptotically safe trans-Planckian regime in the ultraviolet, the intermediate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Álvaro Pastor-Gutiérrez , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

Effective coupling constant in quantum electrodynamics is investigated. A pole appears in the effective coupling constant for the space-like momentum if it is calculated by perturbation. The pole can be eliminated by the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-09 Hirohisa Ishikawa , Keiji Watanabe

We demonstrate our simple strategy for renormalization with QED at one-loop level, basing on an elaboration of the effective field theory philosophy. No artificial regularization or deformation of the original theory is introduced here and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Ji-Feng Yang , Zhao-Ting Pan

We derive an exact renormalization group recursion relation for the Loschmidt amplitude of the quantum $Q$-state clock model and the quantum $Q$-state Potts model in one dimension. The renormalization group flow is discussed in detail. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-08 Yantao Wu

The QED renormalization is restudied by using a mass-dependent subtraction which is performed at a time-like renormalization point. The subtraction exactly respects necessary physical and mathematical requirements such as the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun-Chen Su , Xue-Xi Yi , Ying-Hui Cao

We consider quantum electrodynamics with chiral four-Fermi interactions in the functional renormalization group approach. In gauge theories, the functional flow equation for the effective action is accompanied by the quantum master equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Yoshio Echigo , Yuji Igarashi , Katsumi Itoh , Jan M. Pawlowski , Yu Takahashi

In this paper we discuss the universality of the renormalization of the gauge coupling constant in the quantum electrodynamics coupled to the Einstein's gravity in the framework of effective field theory in an arbitrary gauge. We observe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 L. Ibiapina Bevilaqua , A. C. Lehum , Huan Souza

These lecture notes provide a pedagogical introduction to a specific continuum implementation of the Wilsonian renormalization group, the effective average action. Its general properties and, in particular, its functional renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-08-10 Martin Reuter , Frank Saueressig

The asymptotic safety scenario in quantum gravity is reviewed, according to which a renormalizable quantum theory of the gravitational field is feasible which reconciles asymptotically safe couplings with unitarity. All presently known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-02 M. Niedermaier

We analyse the renormalisation group flow of quantum gravity at sixth order in the derivative expansion within the background field approximation. Non-linear field redefinitions are used to ensure that only essential couplings flow. Working…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Alessio Baldazzi , Kevin Falls , Yannick Kluth , Benjamin Knorr

We study renormalization group flow in a non-local version of quantum electrodynamics (QED). We determine the regime in which the theory flows to a local theory in the infrared and study a possible UV completion of four-dimensional QED. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Matthew Heydeman , Christian B. Jepsen , Ziming Ji , Amos Yarom

Low-energy effective theories have been used very successfully to study the low-energy limit of QCD, providing us with results for a plethora of phenomena, ranging from bound-state formation to phase transitions in QCD. These theories are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Jens Braun , Marc Leonhardt , Jan M. Pawlowski

We explicitly compute the one-loop exact beta function for a nonlocal extension of the standard gauge theory, in particular Yang-Mills and QED. The theory, made of a weakly nonlocal kinetic term and a local potential of the gauge field, is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Leonardo Modesto , Marco Piva , Leslaw Rachwal

Several extensions of the standard model feature new colored states that besides modifying the running of the QCD coupling could even lead to the loss of asymptotic freedom. Such a loss would potentially diminish the Wilsonian fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-15 Francesco Sannino

According to the asymptotic-safety conjecture, the gravitational renormalization group flow features an ultraviolet-attractive fixed point that makes the theory renormalizable and ultraviolet complete. The existence of this fixed point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 Alessia Platania