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Non-perturbative methods for hierarchical models

M. B. Oktay

Published Jan 1, 2001• 1 citation
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Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to provide a practical method to calculate, in scalar field theory, accurate numerical values of the renormalized quantities which could be used to test any kind of approximate calculation. We use finite truncations of the Fourier transform of the recursion formula for Dyson's hierarchical model in the symmetric and broken phases to perform high precision calculations of the Green's functions at zero momentum. We use the well-known correspondence between statistical mechanics and field theory in which the large cut-off limit is obtained by letting β reach a critical value βc. We show that the round-off errors on the magnetic susceptibility grow like (βc − β) −1 near criticality. We show that the systematic errors (finite truncation and volume) can be controlled with an exponential precision and reduced to a level lower than numerical errors. We probe the numerical errors made in Renormalization Group (RG) calculations by varying slightly the resealing factor of the fields and resealing back in order to get the same (if there were no round-off errors) magnetic susceptibility. We find a significant departure from Gaussian behavior. In addition, the average value differs from the exact answer by a quantity which is of the same order as the standard deviation. We calculate the critical exponents γ and the subleading exponent Δ of Dyson's model by direct fits of the zero-momentum two-point function calculated with an Ising and a Landau-Ginzburg measure and by linearization about the non-trivial fixed point for O(N) model up to N = 5. We extend the method to the low temperature phase and show that accurate values of the connected one-, two- and three- point functions can be obtained at large volume and in a limited range of constant external field coupled linearly to the field variable. We show that the leading exponents obey the scaling and hyperscaling relations. We discuss the concept of universality in terms of critical exponents, correction amplitudes and the universal coupling constant for different Landau-Ginzburg measures. We compare our accurate numerical results with those obtained from perturbative methods.

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The goal of this thesis is to provide a practical method to calculate, in scalar field theory, accurate numerical values of the renormalized quantities which could be used to test any kind of approximate calculation. We use finite truncations of the Fourier transform of the recursion formula for Dyson's hierarchical model in the symmetric and broken phases to perform high precision calculations of the Green's functions at zero momentum. We use the well-known correspondence between statistical mechanics and field theory in which the large cut-off limit is obtained by letting β reach a critical value βc. We show that the round-off errors on the magnetic susceptibility grow like (βc − β) −1 near criticality. We show that the systematic errors (finite truncation and volume) can be controlled with an exponential precision and reduced to a level lower than numerical errors. We probe the numerical errors made in Renormalization Group (RG) calculations by varying slightly the resealing factor of the fields and resealing back in order to get the same (if there were no round-off errors) magnetic susceptibility. We find a significant departure from Gaussian behavior. In addition, the average value differs from the exact answer by a quantity which is of the same order as the standard deviation. We calculate the critical exponents γ and the subleading exponent Δ of Dyson's model by direct fits of the zero-momentum two-point function calculated with an Ising and a Landau-Ginzburg measure and by linearization about the non-trivial fixed point for O(N) model up to N = 5. We extend the method to the low temperature phase and show that accurate values of the connected one-, two- and three- point functions can be obtained at large volume and in a limited range of constant external field coupled linearly to the field variable. We show that the leading exponents obey the scaling and hyperscaling relations. We discuss the concept of universality in terms of critical exponents, correction amplitudes and the universal coupling constant for different Landau-Ginzburg measures. We compare our accurate numerical results with those obtained from perturbative methods.
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We review recent results concerning the renormalization group (RG) transformation of Dyson's hierarchical model (HM). This model can be seen as an approximation of a scalar field theory on a lattice. We introduce the HM and show that its large group of symmetry simplifies drastically the blockspinning procedure. Several equivalent forms of the recursion formula are presented with unified notations. Rigourous and numerical results concerning the recursion formula are summarized. It is pointed out that the recursion formula of the HM is inequivalent to both Wilson's approximate recursion formula and Polchinski's equation in the local potential approximation (despite the very small difference with the exponents of the latter). We draw a comparison between the RG of the HM and functional RG equations in the local potential approximation. The construction of the linear and nonlinear scaling variables is discussed in an operational way. We describe the calculation of non-universal critical amplitudes in terms of the scaling variables of two fixed points. This question appears as a problem of interpolation between these fixed points. Universal amplitude ratios are calculated. We discuss the large- N limit and the complex singularities of the critical potential calculable in this limit. The interpolation between the HM and more conventional lattice models is presented as a symmetry breaking problem. We briefly introduce models with an approximate supersymmetry. One important goal of this review is to present a configuration space counterpart, suitable for lattice formulations, of functional RG equations formulated in momentum space (often called exact RG equations and abbreviated ERGE).
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