1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
Europe/London timezone

Analytically continued FRG for dissipative open quantum systems

1 Sept 2026, 17:04
1m
Large Lecture Theatre (Jubilee Building)

Large Lecture Theatre

Jubilee Building

Speaker

Patrick Niekamp (JLU Giessen)

Description

Euclidean approaches such as the functional renormalization group (FRG) have been abundantly and successfully used to study the universal static critical behavior of various physical systems near continuous phase transitions. For the study of critical dynamics, on the other hand, one usually relies on real-time methods. This work illustrates the applicability and limitations of using Euclidean systems and the analytically continued FRG (aFRG) to study critical dynamics. In particular, we formulate a dissipative open quantum system in Euclidean spacetime, in the spirit of the Caldeira-Leggett model. Consecutively, we investigate the dynamic critical behavior and compare to real-time results for the dynamic universality class of Model A (according to the classification by Halperin and Hohenberg).

Affiliation JLU Giessen
Career status PhD student

Author

Patrick Niekamp (JLU Giessen)

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