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Title: Closed-form irreducible differential formulations of the Wilson renormalization group

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. A; (United States)

We present a detailed derivation of the one-particle--irreducible (1PI) differential renormalization-group generators originally developed by Nicoll and Chang and by Chang, Nicoll, and Young. We illustrate the machinery of the irreducible formulation by calculating to order epsilon/sup 2/ the characteristic time exponent z for the time-dependent Ginsburg-Landau model in the cases of conserved and nonconserved order parameter. We then calculate both z and eta to order epsilon/sup 2/ by applying to the 1PI generator an extension of the operator expansion technique developed by Wegner for the Wilson smooth-cutoff renormalization-group generator.

Research Organization:
Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76ER03069
OSTI ID:
5954596
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. A; (United States), Vol. 27:6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English