The nonperturbative functional renormalization group and its applications

N Dupuis, L Canet, A Eichhorn, W Metzner… - Physics Reports, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The renormalization group plays an essential role in many areas of physics, both
conceptually and as a practical tool to determine the long-distance low-energy properties of …

QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021‏ - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

QCD phase structure at finite temperature and density

W Fu, JM Pawlowski, F Rennecke - Physical Review D, 2020‏ - APS
We discuss the phase structure of QCD for N f= 2 and N f= 2+ 1 dynamical quark flavors at
finite temperature and baryon chemical potential. It emerges dynamically from the …

QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential from Dyson–Schwinger equations

CS Fischer - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019‏ - Elsevier
We review results for the phase diagram of QCD, the properties of quarks and gluons and
the resulting properties of strongly interacting matter at finite temperature and chemical …

Gauge sector dynamics in QCD

MN Ferreira, J Papavassiliou - Particles, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
The dynamics of the QCD gauge sector give rise to non-perturbative phenomena that are
crucial for the internal consistency of the theory; most notably, they account for the …

Landau gauge Yang-Mills correlation functions

AK Cyrol, L Fister, M Mitter, JM Pawlowski, N Strodthoff - Physical Review D, 2016‏ - APS
We investigate Landau gauge SU (3) Yang-Mills theory in a systematic vertex expansion
scheme for the effective action with the functional renormalization group. Particular focus is …

QCD phase structure from functional methods

F Gao, JM Pawlowski - Physical Review D, 2020‏ - APS
We discuss the QCD phase structure at finite temperature and chemical potential for 2-flavor
and 2+ 1-flavor QCD. The results are achieved by computing QCD correlation functions …

QCD at finite temperature and density within the fRG approach: an overview

W Fu - Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we present an overview on recent progress in studies of QCD at finite
temperature and densities within the functional renormalization group (fRG) approach. The …

The phase diagram of nuclear and quark matter at high baryon density

K Fukushima, C Sasaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013‏ - Elsevier
We review theoretical approaches to explore the phase diagram of nuclear and quark matter
at high baryon density. We first look over the basic properties of quantum chromodynamics …

Fundamentals of the exact renormalization group

OJ Rosten - Physics Reports, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Various aspects of the Exact Renormalization Group (ERG) are explored, starting with a
review of the concepts underpinning the framework and the circumstances under which it is …