期刊
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2022)066
关键词
Effective Field Theories; Renormalization Group; Global Symmetries
资金
- US DOE [DE-SC011941]
- Simons Foundation [658906]
The text discusses the subtleties of renormalization that arise when deriving a low-energy effective action by integrating out heavy fields of a more complete theory. It provides a concrete example of applying this method to derive the U(1) Goldstone low-energy effective theory and the one-loop equation of state for the superfluid phase of (complex) phi(4). Additionally, it analyzes a renormalizable scalar SO(N) theory at finite chemical potential, demonstrating the absence of the original SO(N) symmetry in the effective theory for the gapless Goldstone.
We revisit certain subtleties of renormalization that arise when one derives a low-energy effective action by integrating out the heavy fields of a more complete theory. Usually these subtleties are circumvented by matching some physical observables, such as scattering amplitudes, but a more involved procedure is required if one is interested in deriving the effective theory to all orders in the light fields (but still to fixed order in the derivative expansion). As a concrete example, we study the U(1) Goldstone low-energy effective theory that describes the spontaneously broken phase of a phi(4) theory for a complex scalar. Working to lowest order in the derivative expansion, but to all orders in the Goldstones, we integrate out the radial mode at one loop and express the low-energy effective action in terms of the renormalized couplings of the UV completion. This yields the one-loop equation of state for the superfluid phase of (complex) phi(4). We perform the same analysis for a renormalizable scalar SO(N) theory at finite chemical potential, integrating out the gapped Goldstones as well, and confirm that the effective theory for the gapless Goldstone exhibits no obvious sign of the original SO(N) symmetry.
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