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

Rethinking Dimensional Regularization in Critical Phenomena

3 Sept 2026, 09:00
20m
Gallery Room 1 (Bramber House)

Gallery Room 1

Bramber House

Speaker

Alessandro Codello (Ca' Foscari)

Description

We show that it is possible to use dimensional regularization (DR) beyond the usual $\varepsilon$-expansion in the context of renormalization group (RG) calculations in Critical Phenomena.
Based on this fact, we propose a new functional RG scheme - Functional Dimensional Regularization (FDR) - and apply it to a scalar theory in three dimensions.
We compute the critical exponents of the Ising universality class directly in $d=3$ under various typical approximations.
The method that emerges combines the agility typical of DR with the generality proper of functional RG.
Moreover, at a given order of approximation, FDR seems to provide faster convergence and better estimates than other functional RGs.

Affiliation Ca' Foscari
Career status Senior

Author

Alessandro Codello (Ca' Foscari)

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