THE LONG-RANGE INTERACTION IN MASSLESS (λΦ4)4THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217732309028990zbMATH Open1165.81341arXiv0806.3690OpenAlexW3126068192MaRDI QIDQ5322466FDOQ5322466

P. M. Stevenson

Publication date: 21 July 2009

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Does massless (lambda Phi^4)_4 theory exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB)? The raw 1-loop result implies that it does, but the "RG-improved" result implies the opposite. I argue that the appropriate "low-energy effective theory" is a nonlocal field theory involving an attractive, long-range interaction Phi^2(x) Phi^2(y)/z^4, where z=|x-y|. RG improvement then requires running couplings for both this interaction and the original pointlike interaction. A crude calculation in this framework yields SSB even after "RG improvement" and closely agrees with the raw 1-loop result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3690

zbMATH Keywords

effective potentialrenormalization groupnonlocal interactionspontaneous symmetry breakingscalar field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Cited In (2)

• ON THE LOW-ENERGY SPECTRUM OF SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN Φ⁴THEORIES
• On a certain lower bound to the effective potential of

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