Multi-regulator functional renormalization group for many-fermion systems

Abstract

We propose a method of multi-regulator functional renormalization group (MR-FRG) which is a novel formulation of functional renormalization group with multiple infrared (IR) regulators. It is applied to a two-component fermionic system with an attractive contact interaction to study crossover phenomena between the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) phase and the Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) phase. To control both the fermionic one-particle excitations and the bosonic collective excitations, IR regulators are introduced, one for the fermionic two-point function and another for the four-fermion vertex. It is shown that the Nozières–Schmitt-Rink (NSR) theory, which is successful to capture qualitative features of the BCS–BEC crossover, can be derived from MR–FRG. Some aspects of MR-FRG to go beyond the NSR theory are also discussed.