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The critical behavior of semi-infinite $d$-dimensional systems with $n$-component order parameter $\bm{\phi}$ and short-range interactions is investigated at an $m$-axial bulk Lifshitz point whose wave-vector instability is isotropic in an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. W. Diehl , A. Gerwinski , S. Rutkevich

This note introduces a novel paradigm for conformal defects with continuously adjustable dimensions. Just as the standard $\varepsilon$ expansion interpolates between integer spacetime dimensions, a new parameter, $\delta$, is used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Elia de Sabbata , Nadav Drukker , Andreas Stergiou

Critical phenomena in the two-dimensional Ising model with a defect line are studied using boundary conformal field theory on the $c=1$ orbifold. Novel features of the boundary states arising from the orbifold structure, including…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Masaki Oshikawa , Ian Affleck

We investigate the $O(N)$--symmetric $\phi^6$ theory in three spacetime dimensions using dimensional regularisation and minimal subtraction. The predictions of other methods are scrutinised in a large-$N$ expansion. We show how the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Sandra Kvedaraitė , Tom Steudtner , Max Uetrecht

In this work, we investigate an important class of nonequilibrium dynamics in the form of nonreciprocal interactions. In particular, we study how nonreciprocal coupling between two $O(n_i)$ order parameters (with $i=1,2$) affects the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jeremy T. Young , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Mohammad Maghrebi

We study the scaling limit of a model of a tethered crumpled D-dimensional random surface interacting through an exclusion condition with a fixed impurity in d-dimensional Euclidean space by the methods of Wilson's renormalization group. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Cassandro , P. K. Mitter

Four-fermi models in dimensionality $2<d<4$ exhibit an ultra-violet stable renormalization group fixed point at a strong value of the coupling constant where chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. The resulting field theory describes…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-31 Simon Hands , Aleksandar Kocic , John B. Kogut

The multi-critical fixed points of $O(N)$ symmetric models cease to exist in the $N\to\infty$ limit, but the mechanism regulating their annihilation still presents several enigmatic aspects. Here, we explore the evolution of high-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-22 Nicolò Defenu , Alessandro Codello

We study the quantum multicritical point in a (2+1)-dimensional Dirac system between the semimetallic phase and two ordered phases that are characterized by anticommuting mass terms with $O(N_1)$ and $O(N_2)$ symmetry, respectively. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-07 Lukas Janssen , Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer

In search of non-trivial field theories in high dimensions, we study further the tensor representation of the $O(N)$-symmetric $\phi^4$ field theory introduced by Herbut and Janssen (Phys. Rev. D. 93, 085005 (2016)), by using four-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 John A. Gracey , Igor F. Herbut , Dietrich Roscher

$N$ conformal theory models $WD^{(p)}_{3}$ coupled locally by their energy operators are analyzed by means of a perturbative renormalization group. New non-trivial fixed points are found.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Vladimir S. Dotsenko , Xuan Son Nguyen , Raoul Santachiara

We consider defect operators in scalar field theories in dimensions $d=4-\epsilon $ and $d=6-\epsilon$ with self-interactions given by a general marginal potential. In a double scaling limit, where the bulk couplings go to zero and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 D. Rodriguez-Gomez , J. G. Russo

We initiate the study of a three dimensional disordered supersymmetric field theory. Specifically, we consider a $\mathcal{N}=2$ large $N$ Wess-Zumino like model with cubic superpotential involving couplings drawn from a Gaussian random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Chi-Ming Chang , Sean Colin-Ellerin , Cheng Peng , Mukund Rangamani

We formally extend the CFT techniques introduced in arXiv:1505.00963, to $\phi^{\frac{2d_0}{d_0-2}}$ theory in $d=d_0-\epsilon$ dimensions and use it to compute anomalous dimensions near $d_0=3, 4$ in a unified manner. We also do a similar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-23 Pallab Basu , Chethan Krishnan

Critical behaviour of the O(n)-symmetric $\phi^{4}$-model with an antisymmetric tensor order parameter is studied by means of the field-theoretic renormalization group (RG) in the leading order of the $\varepsilon=4-d$-expansion (one-loop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-01 N. V. Antonov , M. V. Kompaniets , N. M. Lebedev

We study quantum field theories with sextic interactions in $3-\epsilon$ dimensions, where the scalar fields $\phi^{ab}$ form irreducible representations under the $O(N)^2$ or $O(N)$ global symmetry group. We calculate the beta functions up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-30 Christian B. Jepsen , Igor R. Klebanov , Fedor K. Popov

The transformation of the free-energy landscape from smooth to hierarchical is one of the richest features of mean-field disordered systems. A well-studied example is the de Almeida-Thouless transition for spin glasses in a magnetic field,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-31 Patrick Charbonneau , Sho Yaida

We describe a supersymmetric RG flow between conformal fixed points of a two-dimensional quantum field theory as an analytic domain wall solution of the three-dimensional SO(4) x SO(4) gauged supergravity. Its ultraviolet fixed point is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Marcus Berg , Henning Samtleben

The large N limit of the hermitian matrix model in three and four Euclidean space-time dimensions is studied with the help of the approximate Renormalization Group recursion formula. The planar graphs contributing to wave function, mass and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Gabriele Ferretti

The equilibrium statistical mechanics of a d dimensional ``oriented'' manifold in an N+d dimensional random medium are analyzed in d=4-epsilon dimensions. For N=1, this problem describes an interface pinned by impurities. For d=1, the model…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Leon Balents , Daniel S. Fisher