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Main Authors: Yoo, Seung-Jong, Kim, Hyeon Jung, Bok, Jinmo, Sese, Lemuel John, Park, Semin, Kim, Ki-Seok
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18148
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author Yoo, Seung-Jong
Kim, Hyeon Jung
Bok, Jinmo
Sese, Lemuel John
Park, Semin
Kim, Ki-Seok
author_facet Yoo, Seung-Jong
Kim, Hyeon Jung
Bok, Jinmo
Sese, Lemuel John
Park, Semin
Kim, Ki-Seok
contents We present a novel Renormalization Group (RG) framework based on a nonlocal effective action ansatz to tame the strong coupling dynamics of the three-dimensional relativistic $ϕ^{4}$ theory. By implementing a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, we decouple the quartic interaction into a system of the primary field $ϕ$ and an auxiliary field $φ\sim ϕ^2$. Rather than freezing the intermediate scaling dimensions, the nonlocality of our effective action allows both exponents $Δ_ϕ$ and $Δ_φ$ to act as fully independent, unconstrained dynamical variables. This nonlocal propagator framework plays a critical role in the RG flow: evaluating field self-energies at the one-loop order and vertex fluctuations up to the non-vanishing two-loop skeleton order, the underlying Ward-like structural identities drive precise cross-cancellations among multi-loop fluctuations near the ``Gaussian'' limit. Solving the resulting closed two-variable master equations isolates a robust, non-trivial physical fixed point at $Δ_ϕ^* \approx 0.9814$ and $Δ_φ^* \approx 0.4148$. These dynamic exponents yield a kinematic anomalous dimension $η_ϕ \approx \mathbf{0.0372}$, an energy operator dimension $Δ_{ϕ^2} \approx \mathbf{1.4148}$, and -- via mass deformation -- a thermal correlation length exponent $ν\approx \mathbf{0.6308}$, demonstrating exceptional quantitative agreement with high-precision Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) and conformal bootstrap benchmarks. Our results rigorously confirm that unfreezing the nonlocal degrees of freedom successfully eliminates the systematic truncation errors inherent to conventional local ansatz treatments, simultaneously resolving both the static scaling and thermodynamic flows of the Wilson-Fisher universality class.
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spellingShingle Taming the 3D Wilson-Fisher Fixed Point via Nonlocal Effective Action
Yoo, Seung-Jong
Kim, Hyeon Jung
Bok, Jinmo
Sese, Lemuel John
Park, Semin
Kim, Ki-Seok
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We present a novel Renormalization Group (RG) framework based on a nonlocal effective action ansatz to tame the strong coupling dynamics of the three-dimensional relativistic $ϕ^{4}$ theory. By implementing a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, we decouple the quartic interaction into a system of the primary field $ϕ$ and an auxiliary field $φ\sim ϕ^2$. Rather than freezing the intermediate scaling dimensions, the nonlocality of our effective action allows both exponents $Δ_ϕ$ and $Δ_φ$ to act as fully independent, unconstrained dynamical variables. This nonlocal propagator framework plays a critical role in the RG flow: evaluating field self-energies at the one-loop order and vertex fluctuations up to the non-vanishing two-loop skeleton order, the underlying Ward-like structural identities drive precise cross-cancellations among multi-loop fluctuations near the ``Gaussian'' limit. Solving the resulting closed two-variable master equations isolates a robust, non-trivial physical fixed point at $Δ_ϕ^* \approx 0.9814$ and $Δ_φ^* \approx 0.4148$. These dynamic exponents yield a kinematic anomalous dimension $η_ϕ \approx \mathbf{0.0372}$, an energy operator dimension $Δ_{ϕ^2} \approx \mathbf{1.4148}$, and -- via mass deformation -- a thermal correlation length exponent $ν\approx \mathbf{0.6308}$, demonstrating exceptional quantitative agreement with high-precision Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) and conformal bootstrap benchmarks. Our results rigorously confirm that unfreezing the nonlocal degrees of freedom successfully eliminates the systematic truncation errors inherent to conventional local ansatz treatments, simultaneously resolving both the static scaling and thermodynamic flows of the Wilson-Fisher universality class.
title Taming the 3D Wilson-Fisher Fixed Point via Nonlocal Effective Action
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18148