20–24 Jan 2025
University of Bern
Europe/Zurich timezone

Homotopic Action: A Pathway to Convergent Diagrammatic Theories

22 Jan 2025, 11:30
45m
Lecture Hall 099 (ExWi Building) (University of Bern)

Lecture Hall 099 (ExWi Building)

University of Bern

University of Bern Exakte Wissenschaften (ExWi) Sidlerstrasse 5 3012 Bern Switzerland

Speaker

Boris Svistunov (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Description

The major obstacle preventing Feynman diagrammatic expansions from accurately solving many-fermion systems in strongly correlated regimes is the series slow convergence or divergence problem. Several techniques have been proposed to address this issue: series resummation by conformal mapping, changing the nature of the starting point of the expansion by shifted action tools, and applying the homotopy analysis method to the Dyson-Schwinger equation. They emerge as dissimilar mathematical procedures aimed at different aspects of the problem. The proposed homotopic action offers a universal and systematic framework for unifying the existing—and generating new—methods and ideas to formulate a physical system in terms of a convergent diagrammatic series. It eliminates the need for resummation, allows one to introduce effective interactions, enables a controlled ultraviolet regularization of continuous-space theories, and reduces the intrinsic polynomial complexity of the diagrammatic Monte Carlo method. We illustrate this approach by an application to the Hubbard model.

Author

Boris Svistunov (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Presentation materials