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Attempts to apply effective field theory (EFT) methods to nonrelativistic nucleon-nucleon (NN) scattering have raised questions about the nature and limitations of an EFT expansion when used nonperturbatively. We discuss the characteristics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 James V. Steele , R. J. Furnstahl

Physical systems differring in their microscopic details often display strikingly similar behaviour when probed at macroscopic scales. Those universal properties, largely determining their physical characteristics, are revealed by the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-09-26 Maciej Koch-Janusz , Zohar Ringel

Rank-d Tensorial Group Field Theories are quantum field theories defined on a group manifold $G^{\times d}$, which represent a non-local generalization of standard QFT, and a candidate formalism for quantum gravity, since, when endowed with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-13 Joseph Ben Geloun , Riccardo Martini , Daniele Oriti

A formalism for electronic-structure calculations is presented that is based on the functional renormalization group (FRG). The traditional FRG has been formulated for systems that exhibit a translational symmetry with an associated Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Christian Seiler , Ferdinand Evers

Gradient Flow Exact Renormalization Group (GF-ERG) is a framework to define the renormalization group flow of Wilsonian effective action utilizing coarse-graining along the diffusion equations. We apply it for Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Junichi Haruna , Masatoshi Yamada

The functional renormalization group (FRG) approach is a powerful tool for studies of a large variety of systems, ranging from statistical physics over the theory of the strong interaction to gravity. The practical application of this…

Bayesian inference with computationally expensive likelihood evaluations remains a significant challenge in many scientific domains. We propose normalizing flow regression (NFR), a novel offline inference method for approximating posterior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-17 Chengkun Li , Bobby Huggins , Petrus Mikkola , Luigi Acerbi

The numerical renormalization group (NRG) is rephrased as a variational method with the cost function given by the sum of all the energies of the effective low-energy Hamiltonian. This allows to systematically improve the spectrum obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 Iztok Pizorn , Frank Verstraete

We study a model of Tensorial Group Field Theory (TGFT) on $\mathbb{R}^3$ from the point of view of the Functional Renormalisation Group. This is the first attempt to apply a renormalisation procedure to a TGFT model defined over a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Joseph Ben Geloun , Riccardo Martini , Daniele Oriti

Complex systems with many degrees of freedom are typically intractable, but some of their behaviors may admit simpler effective descriptions. The question of when such effective descriptions are possible remains open. The paradigmatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-26 Charlotte Strandkvist , Pavel Chvykov , Mikhail Tikhonov

Renormalization group (RG) methods, which model the way in which the effective behavior of a system depends on the scale at which it is observed, are key to modern condensed-matter theory and particle physics. We compare the ideas behind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Cédric Bény

We propose a new neural network framework, termed Neural Network Machine Regression (NNMR), which integrates trainable input gating and adaptive depth regularization to jointly perform feature selection and function estimation in an…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-03 Jiuchen Zhang , Ling Zhou , Peter Song

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 develop an algorithmic, system-specific renormalization group (RG) procedure that is adapted from model reductions techniques from engineering control theory. The resulting "generalized" RG is a consistent generalization of the Wilsonian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 David E. Reynolds

In nuclear matter, for interparticle separations larger than the healing distance (a characteristic long-distance scale of finite-density fermionic systems), the in-medium two-body wave function is essentially a free wave function. In terms…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-23 Manuel Pavon Valderrama

We use the physics-informed renormalisation group (PIRG) for the construction of gauge invariant renormalisation group flows. The respective effective action is a sum of a gauge invariant quantum part and the classical gauge fixing part…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 Friederike Ihssen , Jan M. Pawlowski

Neural networks (NNs) are primarily developed within the frequentist statistical framework. Nevertheless, frequentist NNs lack the capability to provide uncertainties in the predictions, and hence their robustness can not be adequately…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Nastaran Dabiran , Brandon Robinson , Rimple Sandhu , Mohammad Khalil , Dominique Poirel , Abhijit Sarkar

In a recent work arXiv:2008.08601, Halverson, Maiti and Stoner proposed a description of neural networks in terms of a Wilsonian effective field theory. The infinite-width limit is mapped to a free field theory, while finite $N$ corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-01 Harold Erbin , Vincent Lahoche , Dine Ousmane Samary

Data-driven correction of turbulence models offers a promising route for improving Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) predictions, but quantifying uncertainty in such corrections and ensuring generalization across flows remain key…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Tyler Buchanan , Ali Eidi , Richard P. Dwight

Numerical renormalization group (NRG) calculations of quantum impurity models, based on a logarithmic discretization in energy of electronic or bosonic Hamiltonians, provide a powerful tool to describe physics involving widely separated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Axel Freyn , Serge Florens