Fluctuation induced first order phase transition in U(n)xU(n) models using chiral invariant expansion of functional renormalization group flows
arXiv:1409.3695 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.096011
Abstract
Phase transition in U(n)xU(n) models is investigated for arbitrary flavor number n. We present a nonperturbative, 3+1 dimensional finite temperature treatment of obtaining the effective potential, based on a chiral invariant expansion of the functional renormalization group flows. The obtained tower of equations is similar but not identical to that of the Dyson-Schwinger hierarchy and has to be truncated for practical purposes. We investigate the finite temperature behavior of the system in an expansive set of the parameter space for n = 2, 3, 4 and also perform a large-n analysis. Our method is capable of recovering the one-loop beta functions of the coupling constants of the epsilon expansion; furthermore, it shows direct evidence that regardless of the actual flavor number, within our approximation, the system undergoes a fluctuation induced first order phase transition.
12 pages, 6 figures, typos corrected, Version published in Phys. Rev. D
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