Nonlocal effective interactions are inherent to non-relativistic quantum many-body systems, but their systematic resummation poses a significant challenge known as the ``vertex problem" in many-body perturbation theory. We introduce a renormalization scheme based on a projection-based renormalization condition that selectively resums the most essential nonlocal contributions to the effective interaction vertex, avoiding the computational complexity of the full vertex function. This enables us to derive a renormalized Feynman diagrammatic series with large parameters canceled by counter-diagrams, efficiently generated using a perturbative expansion of the parquet equations and computed using a diagrammatic Monte Carlo algorithm. Applying our approach to a 3D Yukawa Fermi liquid, we demonstrate that the renormalized perturbation theory remains predictive even in the strongly correlated regime and uncover significant sign cancellations between different channels contributing to the scattering amplitude. Our work establishes a novel framework for investigating strong correlations in quantum many-body systems, offering a systematic approach to explore nonlocal theories for challenging systems like the electron liquid in material science.
Nonlocal effective interactions are inherent to non-relativistic quantum many-body systems, but their systematic resummation poses a significant challenge known as the ``vertex problem" in many-body perturbation theory. We introduce a renormalization scheme based on a projection-based renormalization condition that selectively resums the most essential nonlocal contributions to the effective interaction vertex, avoiding the computational complexity of the full vertex function. This enables us to derive a renormalized Feynman diagrammatic series with large parameters canceled by counter-diagrams, efficiently generated using a perturbative expansion of the parquet equations and computed using a diagrammatic Monte Carlo algorithm. Applying our approach to a 3D Yukawa Fermi liquid, we demonstrate that the renormalized perturbation theory remains predictive even in the strongly correlated regime and uncover significant sign cancellations between different channels contributing to the scattering amplitude. Our work establishes a novel framework for investigating strong correlations in quantum many-body systems, offering a systematic approach to explore nonlocal theories for challenging systems like the electron liquid in material science.
We present a technique that enables the evaluation of perturbative expansions based on one-loop-renormalized vertices up to large expansion orders. Specifically, we show how to compute large-order corrections to the random phase approximation in either the particle-hole or particle-particle channels. The algorithm's efficiency is achieved by the summation over contributions of all symmetrized Feynman diagram topologies using determinants, and by integrating out analytically the two-body long-range interactions in order to yield an effective zero-range interaction. Notably, the exponential scaling of the algorithm as a function of perturbation order leads to a polynomial scaling of the approximation error with computational time for a convergent series. To assess the performance of our approach, we apply it to the nonperturbative regime of the square-lattice fermionic Hubbard model away from half-filling and report, as compared to the bare interaction expansion algorithm, significant improvements of the Monte Carlo variance as well as the convergence properties of the resulting perturbative series.
Strongly correlated quantum field theories present a formidable challenge to conventional theoretical methods, particularly those rooted in perturbative expansions. The breakdown of perturbation theory in regimes where interaction strengths are comparable to or exceed kinetic energies necessitates the development of non-perturbative approaches. This paper introduces and elaborates on a novel framework for diagrammatic renormalization specifically designed for strongly correlated quantum fields, moving beyond the limitations inherent in iterative or weak-coupling expansions. We explore how a systematic resummation of infinite classes of diagrams, guided by a functional renormalization group perspective, can capture the complex interplay of quantum fluctuations and emergent phenomena characteristic of these systems. Our approach leverages a self-consistent treatment of Green's functions and self-energies, allowing for the faithful description of spectral functions, phase transitions, and exotic ground states in a manner that traditional perturbation theory cannot. We discuss the theoretical underpinnings, computational strategies, and potential applications across diverse domains, including condensed matter physics, quantum chromodynamics, and ultracold atomic systems. The methodology aims to provide a robust, diagrammatically transparent pathway to understanding the non-trivial fixed points and scaling behaviors that govern strongly correlated phenomena, offering a powerful alternative where standard approximations fail.
This thesis aims at developing new schemes for the treatment of correlation effects in condensed matter systems using quantum field theoretical approaches. In particular, our goal is to extend the description of correlation physics at the two-particle level. This is necessary for an unbiased treatment of condensed matter systems that exhibit electronic correlations and competing ordering tendencies. In this respect, the functional renormalization group (fRG) approaches have surely contributed substantially over the last years, as they account for all scattering channels and their mutual feedback effects in an unbiased way. In spite of its flexibility, the application of the fRG is limited by its inherent perturbative nature. To go beyond the conventional weak-coupling implementations, we discuss the general idea to extend fRG based computational schemes by using an exactly solvable interacting reference problem as starting point for the RG flow. The systematic expansion around this solution accounts for a non-perturbative inclusion of correlations at both, the one-particle (self-energy) and two-particle (vertex functions) level. The full treatment of the two-particle vertex functions, however, poses a huge limitation to the numerical performance, not only in the fRG, but in several forefront many-body algorithms. In this perspective, we provide a detailed diagrammatic analysis of the frequency and momentum structures of the vertex functions, together with their physical interpretation. This constitutes the basis for sophisticated parametrization schemes. We then explain the technical details necessary for cutting-edge numerical implementations, and further benchmark our ideas using refined implementations of both, the fRG and the parquet approximation (PA).
Accurately describing many-body effects in multi-orbital systems remains a major challenge in theoretical condensed matter physics. At present, there is a significant methodological gap between the numerical tools used in ab initio computational materials science and those developed to study strong electronic correlations. The former can treat realistic, large-scale systems but typically neglect many-body effects, while the latter focus on simplified models with only a few degrees of freedom, as only such models can be solved accurately in the presence of strong interactions. The purpose of this thesis is to bridge these two approaches and establish a systematic theoretical framework for realistic correlated electronic materials. This involves a full-cycle methodology that begins with constructing ab initio interacting models from density-functional theory, solving them using dynamical mean-field theory to capture local correlations, and extending beyond to incorporate non-local collective electronic fluctuations. To this end, we introduce the "dual" approach to strong correlations, which includes the dual fermion, dual boson, and dual triply irreducible local expansion methods. The central idea of the dual theories is to shift the reference point of the conventional Feynman diagrammatic expansion from a non-interacting electronic system to an interacting but exactly solvable one. Integrating out this reference system recasts the expansion in an effective dual space, where all diagrammatic building blocks are renormalized by the corresponding impurity quantities. This procedure transforms a non-perturbative expansion in the original variables into a perturbative expansion in terms of dual fermionic and bosonic fields, exact in both the weak- and strong-coupling limits. In this thesis, we collect and systematize the major developments of dual techniques achieved to date.
Vertex functions are a crucial ingredient of several forefront many-body algorithms in condensed matter physics. However, the full treatment of their frequency and momentum dependence severely restricts numerical calculations. A significant advancement requires an efficient treatment of the high-frequency asymptotic behavior of the vertex functions. In this work, we first provide a detailed diagrammatic analysis of the high-frequency structures and their physical interpretation. Based on these insights, we propose a parametrization scheme, which captures the whole high-frequency domain for arbitrary values of the Coulomb interaction and electronic density, and we discuss the details of its algorithmic implementation in many-body solvers based on parquet equations as well as functional renormalization group schemes. Finally, we assess its validity by comparing our results for a single impurity Anderson model with exact diagonalization calculations. The proposed parametrization is pivotal for the algorithmic development of all quantum many-body methods based on vertex functions arising from both local and nonlocal static microscopic interactions as well as effective dynamic interactions which uniformly approach a static value for large frequencies. In this way, our present technique can substantially improve vertex-based diagrammatic approaches including spatial correlations beyond dynamical mean-field theory.
In this paper, we investigate how nonlocal correlations affect, selectively, the physics of correlated electrons over different energy scales, from the Fermi level to the band edges. This goal is achieved by applying a diagrammatic extension of dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), the dynamical vertex approximation $(\mathrm{D}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}\mathrm{A})$, to study several spectral and thermodynamic properties of the unfrustrated Hubbard model in two and three dimensions. Specifically, we focus first on the low-energy regime by computing the electronic scattering rate and the quasiparticle mass renormalization for decreasing temperatures at a fixed interaction strength. This way, we obtain a precise characterization of the several steps through which the Fermi-liquid physics is progressively destroyed by nonlocal correlations. Our study is then extended to a broader energy range, by analyzing the temperature behavior of the kinetic and potential energy, as well as of the corresponding energy distribution functions. Our findings allow us to identify a smooth but definite evolution of the nature of nonlocal correlations by increasing interaction: They either increase or decrease the kinetic energy w.r.t. DMFT depending on the interaction strength being weak or strong, respectively. This reflects the corresponding evolution of the ground state from a nesting-driven (Slater) to a superexchange-driven (Heisenberg) antiferromagnet (AF), whose fingerprints are, thus, recognizable in the spatial correlations of the paramagnetic phase. Finally, a critical analysis of our numerical results of the potential energy at the largest interaction allows us to identify possible procedures to improve the ladder-based algorithms adopted in the dynamical vertex approximation.