The Renormalization Group Limit Cycle for the 1/r^2 Potential

Details The Renormalization Group Limit Cycle for the 1/r^2 Potential The Renormalization Group Limit Cycle for the 1/r^2 Potential

2004-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403168v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.70.052111

Previous work has shown that if an attractive 1/r^2 potential is regularized at short distances by a spherical square-well potential, renormalization allows multiple solutions for the depth of the square well. The depth can be chosen to be a continuous function of the short-distance cutoff R, but it can also be a log-periodic function of R with finite discontinuities, corresponding to a renormalization group (RG) limit cycle. We consider the regularization with a delta-shell potential. In this case, the coupling constant is uniquely determined to be a log-periodic function of R with infinite discontinuities, and an RG limit cycle is unavoidable. In general, a regularization with an RG limit cycle is selected as the correct renormalization of the 1/r^2 potential by the conditions that the cutoff radius R can be made arbitrarily small and that physical observables are reproduced accurately at all energies much less than hbar^2/mR^2.

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