Abstract:
The recently introduced single-boson exchange (SBE) decomposition of the two-particle vertex classi-
fies diagrams in terms of single- and multiboson exchange processes in the different channels. Providing
a physically intuitive and also computationally efficient description of the relevant fluctuations, the SBE
allows for the development of new approximation schemes that overcome the limitations of current im-
plementations.
Here we apply the SBE to the functional renormalization group (fRG). In this formulation, the effective
bosonic interaction can be represented by bosonic propagators and fermion-boson couplings determined
from the vertex asymptotics, while the multiboson processes are shown to be irrelevant. They become
important only in the vicinity of the pseudo-critical transition observed in the one-loop approximation.
Since only these depend on three independent frequency and momentum variables, neglecting them
drastically reduces the computational complexity of the problem compared to the purely fermionic one-
loop fRG.
On the methodological side, we generalise the SBE decomposition to the treatment of non-local in-
teractions, providing a numerically feasible fRG-based computation scheme. This includes the derivation
of the self-energy flow based on the Schwinger-Dyson equation which is crucial to capture the pseudogap
opening and the multiloop extension that allows to recover the parquet approximation. For the latter,
we also provide an alternative formulation that does not resort to the expansion in loop orders. We
determine the effects induced by the presence of a nearest-neighbour interaction and explore the physics
arising from the interplay between local and non-local degrees of freedom.
Finally, we investigate the two-dimensional Hubbard model with a local Coulomb interaction for
a wide range of dopings. For this analysis we compute the magnetic, density, and superconducting,
susceptibilities at weak coupling and present a detailed analysis of their evolution with temperature,
interaction strength, and loop order.
The SBE provides greater algorithmic flexibility, leading to higher accuracy at lower cost, as well as
better physical understanding of relevant processes and thereby paves access to new parameter regimes.
Future developments include multiboson extensions of fRG-based algorithms.