arXiv:hep-th/0303261

Direct Calculation of the Critical Effective Potential

Hendrik Ballhausen

Published Mar 31, 2003• 0 citations

Abstract

The critical effective potential is the nonperturbative part of the effective action at a phase transition. It equals the scale invariant effective average potential and can be calculated from the renormalization group flow of the effective average action. In some cases this requires only the solution of an ordinary differential equation without actually simulating the renormalization group flow. Here the Ising model is examined beyond leading order and with full field dependent effective potential.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0303261

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