Implicit and explicit renormalization: Two complementary views of effective interactions

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.11.010zbMATH Open1343.81243arXiv1407.8449OpenAlexW1981798440MaRDI QIDQ307123FDOQ307123

Authors: E. Ruiz Arriola, S. Szpigel, V. S. Timóteo 

Publication date: 1 September 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze quantitatively the interplay between explicit and implicit renormalization in Nuclear Physics. By explicit renormalization we mean to integrate out higher energy modes below a given cutoff scale using the similarity renormalization group (SRG) with a block-diagonal evolution generator, which separates the total Hilbert-space into a model space and its complementary. In the implicit renormalization we impose given conditions at low energies for a cutoff theory. In both cases we compare the outcoming effective interactions as functions of the cutoff scale. We carry out a comprehensive analysis of a toy-model which captures the main features of the nucleon-nucleon (NN) S-wave interaction at low energies. We find a wide energy region where both approaches overlap. This amounts to a great simplification in the determination of the effective interaction. Actually, the outcoming scales are within the expected ones relevant for the physics of light nuclei.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8449

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalizationnuclear forcesimilarity renormalization group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

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