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23 July 2025

We briefly review the recent developments in magnetohydrodynamics, which in particular deal with the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent plasmas. We especially emphasize (i) the necessity and utility of renormalizing equations of motion in turb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Reviews for Fluids 2025–2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,028 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2020

By introducing a suitable renormalization process, the charge carrier and phonon dynamics of a double-stranded helical DNA molecule are expressed in terms of an effective Hamiltonian describing a linear chain, where the renormalized transfer integral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Modeling and Simulation of Polymers and Biopolymers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,610 Views
21 Pages

Vacuum Effective Actions and Mass-Dependent Renormalization in Curved Space

  • Sebastián A. Franchino-Viñas,
  • Tibério de Paula Netto and
  • Omar Zanusso

28 February 2019

We review past and present results on the non-local form-factors of the effective action of semiclassical gravity in two and four dimensions computed by means of a covariant expansion of the heat kernel up to the second order in the curvatures. We di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Fields – From Fundamental Concepts to Phenomenological Questions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,443 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2019

Quantum cosmology is traditionally formulated in a minisuperspace setting, implicitly averaging fields over space to obtain homogeneous models. For universal reasons related to the uncertainty principle, quantum corrections then depend on the size of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Loop Quantum Gravity and Non-Perturbative Approaches to Quantum Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
181 Views
20 Pages

1 October 2026

Quantum fields on a time-dependent geometry can undergo particle production, but this does not establish a self-amplifying response of the geometry. We study a conditional two-amplitude closure for a signed curvature perturbation and a signed renorma...

(This article belongs to the Section Hilbert’s Sixth Problem)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,875 Views
17 Pages

We present an economical approach to treat spin–orbit coupling (SOC) in the state-averaged driven similarity renormalization group second-order perturbation theory (SA-DSRG-PT2). The electron correlation is first introduced by forming the SA-DS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiconfigurational and DFT Methods Applied to Chemical Systems—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,856 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2018

The Casimir effect for a scalar field in presence of delta-type potentials has been investigated for a long time in the case of surface delta functions, modelling semi-transparent boundaries. More recently Albeverio, Cacciapuoti, Cognola, Spreafico a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Casimir Physics and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,096 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2022

Pavement temperature field affects pavement service life and the thermal environment the near road surface; thus, is important for sustainable pavement design. This paper developed a combined prediction method for the thermal conductivity of asphalt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Materials and Sustainable Pavement Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,019 Views
11 Pages

Band Gap Tuning of Films of Undoped ZnO Nanocrystals by Removal of Surface Groups

  • Chengjian Zhang,
  • Qiaomiao Tu,
  • Lorraine F. Francis and
  • Uwe R. Kortshagen

7 February 2022

Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) are widely used in optoelectronic devices such as flat-panel displays and solar cells. A significant optical property of TCOs is their band gap, which determines the spectral range of the transparency of the mater...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanocomposite Materials)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,564 Views
18 Pages

26 June 2024

A renormalized group improved Schwarzschild black hole spacetime contains two quantum correction parameters. One parameter γ represents the identification of cutoff of the distance scale, and another parameter Ω stems from nonperturbative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Testing General Relativity from the Solar System, Black Holes to Cosmology)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,067 Views
17 Pages

11 June 2014

We explore the possible cosmological consequences of a running Newton’s constant, G(⎕), as suggested by the non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point scenario for Einstein gravity with a cosmological constant term. Here, we examine what possible effects a...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,831 Views
24 Pages

Investigation of Ring and Star Polymers in Confined Geometries: Theory and Simulations

  • Joanna Halun,
  • Pawel Karbowniczek,
  • Piotr Kuterba and
  • Zoriana Danel

19 February 2021

The calculations of the dimensionless layer monomer density profiles for a dilute solution of phantom ideal ring polymer chains and star polymers with f=4 arms in a Θ-solvent confined in a slit geometry of two parallel walls with repulsive surfaces a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 45th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,326 Views
18 Pages

The spin wave renormalization processes in two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnetic monolayers are investigated using an established non-bosonic diagram technique based on the drone-fermion perturbation method. The aim is to evaluate the damping o...

(This article belongs to the Section Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,829 Views
38 Pages

10 January 2026

The asymptotic safety program assumes that quantum gravity becomes renormalizable through ultraviolet fixed points in metric-based couplings. We demonstrate that this approach encounters fundamental symmetry violations across multiple independent cri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lorentz Invariance Violation and Space–Time Symmetry Breaking)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,188 Views
19 Pages

For studying the finite-size behavior of the Ising model under different boundary conditions, we propose an alternative to the standard transfer matrix technique approach based on Abelès theorem and Chebyshev polynomials. Using it, one can eas...

(This article belongs to the Section Condensed Matter Theory)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,627 Views
53 Pages

21 September 2023

We review several variants of three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED3) with Nf fermion (or boson) flavors, including fermionic (or spinorial) QED3, bosonic (or scalar) QED3, N=1 supersymmetric QED and also models of reduced QED (supersymmetri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review on Quantum Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,244 Views
20 Pages

1 June 2016

The Skyrme force parameters can be uniquely determined by coarse graining the Nucleon-Nucleon (NN) interactions at a characteristic momentum scale. We show how exact V lowk potentials to second order in momenta are saturated with physical N...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Hadrons and Nuclei)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,846 Views
8 Pages

Fractal Structure in Gauge Fields

  • Airton Deppman and
  • Eugenio Megías

21 May 2019

In this work, we investigate fractal properties in Yang–Mills fields, in particular their Hausdorff fractal dimension. Fractal properties of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) have been suggested as the origin of power-law distributions in high energ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends and Prospects in High Energy Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
855 Views
28 Pages

Effective Potentials for de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter Quantum Fields

  • Alfio Bonanno,
  • Sergio Luigi Cacciatori and
  • Ugo Moschella

7 May 2026

We derive a systematic treatment of one-loop effective potentials for interacting scalar fields in curved spacetimes, providing a general formula valid in arbitrary geometries and explicit results for de Sitter and anti-de Sitter backgrounds. We then...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Mathematical Physics: Current Topics and Recent Advances—in Honour of Professor Jean-Pierre Gazeau on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,550 Views
7 Pages

Four Loop Scalar ϕ4 Theory Using the Functional Renormalization Group

  • Margaret E. Carrington and
  • Christopher D. Phillips

We work with a symmetric scalar theory with quartic coupling in 4-dimensions. Using a 2PI effective theory and working at 4 loop order, we renormalize with a renormalization group method. All divergences are absorbed by one bare coupling constant and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2018))
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,521 Views
19 Pages

24 January 2011

The Asymptotic Safety scenario predicts that the deep ultraviolet of Quantum Einstein Gravity is governed by a nontrivial renormalization group fixed point. Analyzing its implications for cosmology using renormalization group improved Einstein equati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Quantum Gravity)
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  • Open Access
1,392 Views
14 Pages

Renormalization Group Approach as a Symmetry Transformation for an Analysis of Non-Newtonian Elastic Turbulence

  • Andriy A. Avramenko,
  • Igor V. Shevchuk,
  • Nataliia P. Dmitrenko and
  • Alina V. Konyk

24 March 2025

Symmetry transformation methods are widely used in fluid flow problems. One such method is renormalization group analysis. Renormalization group methods are used to develop a macroscopic turbulence model for non-Newtonian fluids (Oldroyd-B type). Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computational Mechanics of Non-Newtonian Fluids)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,302 Views
19 Pages

28 August 2021

The internal damage of red-bed soft rock induced by water is pervasive. The accumulation, growth, and localization of damage is a multi-scale process that can lead to significant strength loss in red-bed soft rock. Yet, research on the critical state...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Formation-Destruction Mechanism and Early-Warning Method of Soft Rock)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,359 Views
31 Pages

11 November 2017

We discuss the renormalization of the polarizability of a nanoparticle in the presence of either: (1) a continuous graphene sheet; or (2) a plasmonic graphene grating, taking into account retardation effects. Our analysis demonstrates that the excita...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
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14 Pages

17 March 2023

In this paper, we focus on evolution from an equilibrium state in a power law form by means of q-exponentials to an arbitrary one. Introducing new q-Gibbsian equalities as the necessary condition of self-organization in nonextensive open systems, we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-additive Entropy Formulas: Motivation and Derivations)
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  • Open Access
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9 Pages

Renormalization of Fermi Velocity and Band Gap in a Two-Dimensional System near a Conducting Plate at Finite Temperature

  • Jeferson Danilo L. Silva,
  • Alessandra N. Braga,
  • Wagner P. Pires,
  • Danilo T. Alves and
  • Van Sérgio Alves

In a recent work, it was demonstrated within the framework of Pseudo Quantum Electro-dynamics (PQED) at zero temperature that the logarithmic renormalization of the Fermi velocity in a graphene sheet is inhibited by the presence of a single parallel...

(This article belongs to the Section Physics of Materials)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
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16 Pages

31 March 2025

For a quasi-two-dimensional nonlinear sigma model on the real Stiefel manifolds with a generalized (anisotropic) metric, the equations of a two-charge renormalization group (RG) for the homothety and anisotropy of the metric as effective couplings ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,584 Views
9 Pages

2 March 2019

The problem of an enormously large energy density of the quantum vacuum is discussed in connection with the concept of renormalization of physical parameters in quantum field theory. Using the method of dimensional regularization, it is recalled that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cosmology and Quantum Vacuum)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,655 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2020

In this paper, a novel method to quantitatively analyze insulator degradation in a single layer solenoid is proposed. The suggested method employs renormalization of scattering parameters to efficiently detect changes of permittivity in a degraded so...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
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  • Open Access
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10 Pages

Global Solutions to Rasmussen’s Problem by Homotopy Renormalization Method

  • Bing Guan,
  • Xianjun Wang,
  • Xiaofei Fu,
  • Shuangqing Chen and
  • Shibin Li

7 October 2025

In this study, we employ the homotopy renormalization (HTR) method to analytically investigate Rasmussen’s problem, which characterizes the viscous fluid motion between a pair of infinitely large, coaxially rotating disks. The original set of n...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,381 Views
20 Pages

Wilsonian Effective Action and Entanglement Entropy

  • Satoshi Iso,
  • Takato Mori and
  • Katsuta Sakai

7 July 2021

This is a continuation of our previous works on entanglement entropy (EE) in interacting field theories. In previous papers, we have proposed the notion of ZM gauge theory on Feynman diagrams to calculate EE in quantum field theories and shown that E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Manifest and Hidden Symmetries in Field and String Theories)
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8 Citations
2,544 Views
13 Pages

20 September 2022

The study of black hole shadows by considering the surrounding kinds of matter has attracted interest in recent years. In this paper, we use the ray-tracing method to study shadows and photon spheres of renormalization group improved (RGI) black hole...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Gravity Research)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,334 Views
15 Pages

Field Theoretical Approach for Signal Detection in Nearly Continuous Positive Spectra II: Tensorial Data

  • Vincent Lahoche,
  • Mohamed Ouerfelli,
  • Dine Ousmane Samary and
  • Mohamed Tamaazousti

23 June 2021

The tensorial principal component analysis is a generalization of ordinary principal component analysis focusing on data which are suitably described by tensors rather than matrices. This paper aims at giving the nonperturbative renormalization group...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,750 Views
21 Pages

We present exact numerical data for the lowest-energy momentum eigenstates (yrast states) of a repulsive spin impurity in a one-dimensional Bose gas using full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (FCIQMC). As a stochastic extension of exact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Quantum Matter)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,666 Views
16 Pages

13 February 2022

The field theoretic renormalization group is applied to the strongly nonlinear stochastic advection-diffusion equation. The turbulent advection is modelled by the Kazantsev–Kraichnan “rapid-change” ensemble. As a requirement of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,334 Views
24 Pages

The effects of vacuum polarization associated with a massless scalar field near pointlike source with a zero-range potential in three spatial dimensions are analyzed. The “physical” approach consists in the usage of direct delta-potential as a model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Casimir Effect: From a Laboratory Table to the Universe)
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  • Open Access
881 Views
13 Pages

4 August 2026

The role of Chapman’s hydrostatic solar wind model (based on a hydrostatic force balance condition) in Parker’s hydrodynamic solar wind theory is investigated by invoking the de Laval nozzle analogy for the production of flow acceleration...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Lennart Stenflo on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday: Plasma Physics and Nonlinear Science)
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1 Citations
1,818 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2024

The asymptotically safe gravity is investigated in the framework of the functional renormalization group method. The low energy region of the model can account for the cosmological behavior, where it is assumed that the nonlocal effects play a crucia...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
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  • Open Access
668 Views
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A Dynamical Model of Light Halo Nuclei

  • Francisco Barranco,
  • Gregory Potel and
  • Enrico Vigezzi

We present a review of theoretical studies of the structure and reactions of N = 7 and N = 8 nuclei in the vicinity of 11Li, carried out within a framework based on Nuclear Field Theory. The coupling of valence nucleons to low-lying surface vibration...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the International Symposium Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Halo Nuclei)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,614 Views
18 Pages

Are Heavy Fermion Strange Metals Planckian?

  • Mathieu Taupin and
  • Silke Paschen

12 February 2022

Strange metal behavior refers to a linear temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity that is not due to electron–phonon scattering. It is seen in numerous strongly correlated electron systems, from the heavy fermion compounds, via tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Spin on Metal-Insulator Transitions)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
510 Views
20 Pages

27 January 2026

We study the conditions under which momentum-space equal-time correlators of scalar fields are finite in flat space. We identify cases where these correlators can be divergent even after renormalization, and we provide sufficient criteria for their e...

(This article belongs to the Section Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,476 Views
45 Pages

Application of Symmetry Methods to Low-Dimensional Heisenberg Magnets

  • Irene G. Bostrem,
  • Alexander S. Ovchinnikov and
  • Valentine E. Sinitsyn

9 April 2010

An account of symmetry is very fruitful in studies of quantum spin systems. In the present paper we demonstrate how to use the spin SU(2) and the point symmetries in optimization of the theoretical condensed matter tools: the exact diagonalization, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers: Symmetry Concepts and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,377 Views
42 Pages

13 September 2022

We review the problem of summation for a very short truncation of a power series by means of special resummation techniques inspired by the field-theoretical renormalization group. Effective viscosity (EV) of active and passive suspensions is studied...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Approximation Methods II)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,301 Views
20 Pages

The Effect of Electrolytic Hydrogenation on Mechanical Properties of T92 Steel Weldments under Different PWHT Conditions

  • Lucia Čiripová,
  • Ladislav Falat,
  • Viera Homolová,
  • Miroslav Džupon and ,
  • Róbert Džunda and
  • Ivo Dlouhý
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18 August 2020

In the present work, the effects of electrolytic hydrogen charging of T92 steel weldments on their room-temperature tensile properties were investigated. Two circumferential weldments between the T92 grade tubes were produced by gas tungsten arc weld...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue History, Developments and Trends in the Heat Treatment of Steel)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,309 Views
18 Pages

14 December 2023

The paper investigates the vacuum expectation value of the surface energy–momentum tensor (SEMT) for a scalar field with general curvature coupling in the geometry of two branes orthogonal to the boundary of anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. For...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 75 Years of the Casimir Effect: Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,502 Views
13 Pages

26 October 2021

Many-body physics poses one of the greatest challenges to science in the 21st century. Still more daunting is the problem of accurately calculating the properties of quantum many-body systems in the strongly correlated regime. Cold atomic gases provi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,487 Views
10 Pages

19 March 2018

We consider the Casimir effect for a scalar field interacting with another scalar field that is confined to two half spaces. This model is aimed to mimic the interaction of the photon field with matter in two slabs. We use Dirichlet boundary conditio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Casimir Physics and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,351 Views
10 Pages

16 March 2021

Coupling of ‘t Hooft’s determinant term is investigated in the framework of the three-flavor linear sigma model as a function of the chiral condensate. Using perturbation theory around the minimum point of the effective action, we calculate the renor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chiral Symmetry in Physics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,138 Views
15 Pages

Quantum stochastic processes are widely used in describing open quantum systems and in the context of quantum foundations. Physically relevant quantum stochastic processes driven by multiplicative colored noise are generically non-Markovian and analy...

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