Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-10-23
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Proceedings, 9 pages, plain hypertex, private macros (firmac, lfont)
Scientific paper
Path integrals have played a fundamental role in emphasizing the profound analogies between Quantum Field Theory (QFT), and Classical as well as Quantum Statistical Physics. Ideas coming from Statistical Physics have then led to a deeper understanding of Quantum Field Theory and open the way for a wealth of non-perturbative methods. Conversely QFT methods are become essential for the description of the phase transitions and critical phenomena beyond mean field theory. This is the point we want to illustrate here. We therefore review the methods, based on renormalized phi^4_3 quantum field theory and renormalization group, which have led to an accurate determination of critical exponents of the N-vector model, and more recently of the equation of state of the 3D Ising model. The starting point is the perturbative expansion for RG functions or the effective potential to the order presently available. Perturbation theory is known to be divergent and its divergence has been related to instanton contributions. This has allowed to characterize the large order behaviour of perturbation series, an information that can be used to efficiently "sum" them. Practical summation methods based on Borel transformation and conformal mapping have been developed, leading to the most accurate results available probing field theory in a non perturbative regime. We illustrate the methods with a short discussion of the scaling equation of state of the 3D Ising model. Compared to exponents its determination involves a few additional (non-trivial) technical steps, like the use of the parametric representation, and the order-dependent mapping.
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