Loss of Conformality in Efimov Physics

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-32357-8_131zbMATH Open1437.81211arXiv1812.06153OpenAlexW2999952193MaRDI QIDQ3299796FDOQ3299796

Abhishek Mohapatra, Eric Braaten

Publication date: 24 July 2020

Published in: Recent Progress in Few-Body Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The loss of conformal invariance in Efimov physics is due to the merger and disappearance of an infrared and an ultraviolet fixed point of a three-body renormalization group flow as the spatial dimension $d$ is varied. In the case of identical bosons at unitarity, it is known that there are two critical dimensions $d_{m1}=2.30$ and $d_{m2}=3.76$ at which there is loss of conformality. For $d<d_{m1}$ and $d>d_{m2}$, the beta function of the three-body coupling has real roots which correspond to infrared and ultraviolet fixed points. The fixed points merge and disappear into the complex plane at the critical dimensions $d_1$ and $d_2$. For $d_{m1}<d<d_{m2}$, the beta function has complex roots and the renormalization group flow for the three-body coupling constant is a limit cycle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06153

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Three-body problems (70F07)

Cites Work

• The three-body problem with short-range interactions

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