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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 10: Statistical Physics I (General)

DY 10.9: Vortrag

Montag, 12. März 2018, 12:15–12:30, BH-N 333

Expanding the effective action around non-Gaussian theories — •Tobias Kühn¹ and Moritz Helias^1,2 — ¹Inst. of Neurosc. and Medicine (INM-6), Inst. for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Inst. I, Jülich Research Centre, Germany — ²Department of Physics, Faculty 1, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

The effective action or Gibbs Free Energy is the central quantity to study phase transitions and is at the core of effective theories constructed, for example, by the renormalization group. It is known that only one-line-irreducible Feynman diagrams contribute in the case that the theory, about which one expands, is Gaussian. We introduce a generalized notion of one-line-irreducibility: diagrams that remain connected after detaching a single leg of an interaction vertex. We show that the effective action decomposes into diagrams that are either irreducible in this more general sense or belong to a second class of diagrams that has no analogue in Gaussian theories [Kühn & Helias 2017, arXiv:1711.05599]. The presented method allows the efficient diagrammatic perturbative computation of the effective action around any exactly solvable problem. We illustrate this method by application to the (classical) Ising model expanded in the coupling strength. This reproduces the Plefka expansion [Plefka 1982], including the TAP-correction [Thouless et al. 1977] to mean-field theory. We find that the diagrammatic formulation considerably simplifies the calculation compared to existing techniques [Takayama & Nakanishi 1997, Georges & Yedidia 1991]. Supported by the Helmholtz foundation (VH-NG-1028, SMHB); EU Grant 604102 (HBP).