Renormalization group ow to eective quantum mechanics at IR in an emergent dual holographic description for spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking Ki-Seok Kimab Mitsuhiro Nishidaa and Yoonseok Chounab

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Renormalization group flow to effective quantum mechanics at IR in an emergent dual
holographic description for spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking
Ki-Seok Kima,b, Mitsuhiro Nishidaa, and Yoonseok Chouna,b
aDepartment of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Korea
bAsia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Korea
(Dated: October 21, 2022)
Implementing the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) transformation in a nonperturbative
way, we construct an effective holographic dual description with an emergent extradimension iden-
tified with an RG scale. Taking the largeNlimit, we obtain an equation of motion of an order-
parameter field, here the chiral condensate for our explicit demonstration. In particular, an in-
tertwined structure manifests between the first-order RG flow equations of renormalized coupling
functions and the second-order differential equation of the order-parameter field, thus referred to as
a nonperturbative RG-improved mean-field theory. Assuming translational symmetry as a vacuum
state, we solve these nonlinear coupled mean-field equations based on a matching method between
UV- and IR-regional solutions. As a result, we find an RG flow from a weakly-coupled chiral-
symmetric UV fixed point to a strongly-correlated chiral-symmetry broken IR fixed point, where
the renormalized velocity of Dirac fermions vanishes most rapidly and effective quantum mechanics
appears at IR. Furthermore, we translate these RG flows of coupling functions into those of emer-
gent metric tensors and extract out geometrical properties of the emergent holographic spacetime
constructed from the UV- and IR-regional solutions. Surprisingly, we obtain the volume law of
entanglement entropy in the Ryu-Takayanagi formula, which implies appearance of a black hole
type solution in the limit of infinite cutoff even at zero temperature. We critically discuss our field
theoretic interpretation for this solution in terms of potentially gapless multi-particle excitation
spectra.
I. INTRODUCTION
Renormalization group (RG) improved mean-field theory (RG-MFT) is not only a natural but also a general
framework at least in the conceptual aspect. Here, interaction vertices are renormalized in the one-loop level, or
resummed in the context of the Bethe-Salpeter equation [1]. These renormalized coupling functions enter a mean-field
equation for the description of a phase transition given by an order-parameter field. Unfortunately, this ‘perturbative’
RG framework is not enough to understand dynamics of strongly coupled quantum field theories.
To generalize the Wilsonian perturbative RG transformation in a nonperturbative way, we introduce an energy-
scale dependent order-parameter field and propose an intertwined RG structure between the RG flow equations of
renormalized coupling functions and an extended mean-field equation of the order-parameter field at each energy
scale. Suppose the Wilsonian RG transformation for a given quantum field theory at an energy scale Λ. Then, we
solve the resulting effective interacting field theory in a mean-field fashion but with renormalized interaction vertices
at the scale Λ. Usually, this is the end of the procedure, referred to as the RG-MFT mentioned above.
In this study, we extend this procedure in an iterative way. After performing the first iteration in the RG-MFT, we
consider the second RG transformation for all dynamical variables including the order-parameter field. This second
iteration is supported by the renormalized coupling functions and the mean-field ‘background’ value of the order
parameter at the scale Λ in the first step of the RG-MFT. Again, we take the largeNlimit to perform the mean-field
analysis with the updated renormalized interaction vertices after the second RG implementation. This completes the
second iteration in the RG-MFT.
Repeating these RG iterations with the scale-dependent mean-field analysis in the largeNlimit and expressing
the discrete variable of the RG iteration with a continuous ‘coordinate’ z, we construct an effective field theory, where
the RG transformation manifests with an emergent extradimension denoted by z[2–12]. Interestingly, we observe
that this nonperturbative RG-MFT not only shares some characteristic features of the holographic dual effective
field theory [13–19] but also modifies them in two ways. First, the background geometry in the dual holographic
description corresponds to the RG flow equations of renormalized coupling functions in the nonperturbative RG-
MFT [17–19]. Second, other fields besides the metric tensor describe the dynamics of ‘order parameters’ or collective
fields in a dual fashion [13–16]. For example, the scalar field in the Einstein-scalar field theory corresponds to the
Ki-Seok Kim: tkfkd@postech.ac.kr; Mitsuhiro Nishida: mnishida124@gmail.com; Yoonseok Choun: ychoun@gmail.com
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chiral condensate in the present description. These two aspects reinterpret the holographic dual effective field theory
in terms of nonperturbative Wilsonian RG transformations. Third, the nonperturbative RG-MFT introduces RG
βfunctions of interaction vertices beyond the holographic dual effective field theory with gravity, where the RG
flows for all dynamical variables appear naturally to show conformal invariance only in the low-energy limit [5–12, 20–
23]. Fourth, there is essential difference on how to assign UV and IR boundary conditions in the present description,
where an effective on-shell (boundary) action determines both boundary conditions [5–12]. Here, the effective on-shell
(boundary) action may be regarded as a solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation [5, 6].
For concreteness, we consider spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking [1]. Here, we have three types of coupling
functions, corresponding to the wave-function renormalization constant for Dirac fermions, the velocity of Dirac
fermions, and their effective interactions for chiral symmetry breaking, respectively. In addition, we have one order
parameter field to describe the chiral symmetry breaking. Taking the largeNlimit in the nonperturbative RG-MFT,
where Nis the flavor number of Dirac fermions, we obtain four coupled differential equations, where three of them are
given by the first order to describe the RG flows of the coupling functions and the last is the second-order differential
equation for the order-parameter field, supported by renormalized coupling functions at a given energy scale. We
verify that the wave-function renormalization constant (the velocity renormalization constant) in the nonperturbative
RG-MFT corresponds to the space (time) component of the metric tensor in the holographic dual effective field theory.
We believe that it would not be an easy task to solve these four heavily intertwined differential equations. Here, we
apply a matching method to solving these coupled differential equations [24]. First, we solve such coupled differential
equations near both UV and IR boundary regions, where these equations become simplified. Second, we apply the
UV (IR) boundary condition to the UV-regional (IR-) solution. Since the number of boundary conditions would
be less than that of integration constants, some of the integration constants remain undetermined in both UV- and
IR-regional solutions. Third, we require that the UV-regional solution should be smoothly connected to the IR-
regional solution in the extradimensional space. Of course, there must be a certain condition for the existence of this
matching solution, which will be clarified later. Based on this matching method, we find an RG flow from a weakly-
coupled chiral-symmetric UV fixed point to a strongly-correlated chiral-symmetry broken IR fixed point, where the
renormalized velocity of Dirac fermions vanishes most rapidly and effective quantum mechanics appears at IR. It is
a feature of the nonperturbative RG-MFT the appearance of this local strong-coupling fixed point. Furthermore,
we investigate several geometrical objects in the holographic spacetime constructed from the UV- and IR-regional
solutions we found. In particular, we calculate the minimal surface for a single interval, which is essential for the
holographic entanglement entropy formula [25, 26]. We uncovered the volume law of entanglement entropy at zero
temperature, which implies appearance of a black hole type geometry at Λ → ∞ to describe the strongly-correlated
chiral-symmetry broken IR fixed point. We critically discuss our field theoretic interpretation that strong correlations
may allow gapless multi-particle spectra between the single-particle excitation gap due to spontaneous chiral symmetry
breaking.
This paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss a general formulation of emergent dual holography in section
II. Here, we introduce a general framework for the RG transformation and clarify how the present construction
implements the RG transformation in a nonperturbaive way. In addition, we introduce an emergent dual holographic
description given by gravity with an extradimension and argue that our nonperturbative RG framework may be
regarded as an effective holographic dual description. Second, we take the largeNlimit in this effective field theory
and obtain the equation of motion for an order-parameter field, here the chiral condensate, in section II. Here, we find
an intertwined structure for the RG flows between the renormalized coupling vertices and the order-parameter field.
Third, we try to solve these coupled mean-field equations based on a matching method between UV- and IR-regional
solutions in section III, assuming translational symmetry as a vacuum solution. In particular, we could reveal some
analytic behaviors in the low-energy limit and find a local strong-coupling fixed point. In section IV, we compute the
Ricci scalar curvature and the minimal surface on the three-dimensional holographic spacetime. Then, we summarize
our main results and discuss several unresolved issues here in the last section.
II. A NONPERTURBATIVE APPROACH OF THE WILSONIAN RENORMALIZATION GROUP
THEORY FOR SPONTANEOUS CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING
A. A general framework for the renormalization group transformation
We start our discussions, reviewing a general framework of the RG transformation [1]. Here, we consider interacting
Dirac fermions, described by
Z=ZDψ(x) exp hZdDxn¯
ψ(x)γµµψ(x) + λ
2N¯
ψ(x)ψ(x)¯
ψ0(x)ψ0(x)oi.(1)
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ψ(x) is a Dirac spinor at xin Dspacetime dimensions, where σis a flavor index from 1 to Nand bis ‘bare’ or
‘unrenormalized’. ¯
ψ(x) = ψ
(x)γ0is the canonical conjugate variable to ψ(x). γµwith µ= 0, ..., D 1 is the
Dirac matrix to satisfy the Clifford algebra in Dspacetime dimensions. λis an interaction coefficient for chiral
symmetry breaking, where balso denotes ‘bare’ or ‘unrenormalized’.
Performing the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation for the chiral symmetry breaking channel, we introduce an
order-parameter field ϕb(x) as follows
Z=ZDψ(x)Dϕb(x) exp hZdDxn¯
ψ(x)γττivγiiψ (x)ϕb(x)¯
ψ(x)ψ(x) + Nλ
2ϕ2
b(x)oi.
(2)
Here, we introduced vas the ‘bare’ velocity of Dirac fermions. To describe quantum fluctuations of chiral symmetry
breaking, we integrate over short-distance fluctuations of Dirac fermions and obtain
Z=ZDψ(x)Dϕb(x) exp hZdDxn¯
ψ(x)γττivγiiψ (x)ϕb(x)¯
ψ(x)ψ(x)
+Nϕb(x)2
τv2
2
i+m2
ϕb(x)oi.(3)
Here, the kinetic energy of the order-parameter field results from the polarization bubble of high-energy quantum
fluctuations of Dirac fermions, denoted by Π(xx0) = λ2
D¯
ψ(x)ψ(x)¯
ψ0(x0)ψ0(x0)E, where h...iis an ensemble
average. Performing the Fourier transformation and expanding it up to the second order with respect to the frequency
and momentum, we obtain Π(i, q) = c1Nλ2
Λ2
f(Ω2+c2v2
q2) + Π(0,0), where c1and c2are numerical constants. Λf
is the short-distance cutoff to control high-energy fluctuations. Rescaling coordinates, fields, and coupling constants
appropriately, we obtain the above expression for the kinetic energy of the order-parameter field, where vand m
are the ‘bare’ velocity and ‘bare’ mass of the collective field ϕb(x).
Now, we consider the RG transformation. First, the coordinate transforms as
xµx, (4)
where µis the scaling parameter. To make the time-derivative term be invariant under this coordinate transformation,
both fermion and boson fields have to transform as follows
ψ(x) = µD1
2Z1
2
ψψ (x), ϕb=µD2
2Z1
2
ϕϕr.(5)
Here, Zψand Zϕare wave-function renormalization constants to take divergent contributions from quantum correc-
tions and to relate fermion and boson bare fields with their renormalized ones denoted by the subscript r. Accordingly,
fermion and boson velocities transform as
v=Z1
ψZvψv , v2
=Z1
ϕZv2
ϕv2
,(6)
which lead the space-derivative term to be invariant under this scaling transformation. Zvψand Zv2
ϕare velocity
renormalization constants for fermions and bosons, respectively. The boson mass term remains invariant if the mass
parameter transforms as
m2
=µ2Z1
ϕZm2
ϕm2
,(7)
where Zm2
ϕis the mass renormalization constant. Finally, the Yukawa coupling term is invariant if the Yukawa
interaction vertex transforms as
λ=µD4
2Z1
ψZ1
2
ϕZλχλ,(8)
where Zλχis the interaction renormalization constant.
Replacing all bare fields and coupling constants with renormalized ones, we obtain the following effective field theory
Z= (µ(2D3)ZN
ψZϕ)VDZDψ(x)Dϕr(x) exp hZdDxn¯
ψ (x)ZψγττiZvψv γiiψrσ(x)
iZλχλϕr(x)¯
ψ (x)ψ (x) + Nϕr(x)Zϕ2
τZv2
ϕv2
2
i+Zm2
ϕm2
ϕr(x)oi,(9)
where VDis the volume factor of the Ddimensional spacetime. Below, we find all these renormalization constants
in the nonperturbative RG-MFT.
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B. Nonperturbative implementation of the Wilsonian renormalization group transformation
To implement the Wilsonian RG transformation in a nonperturbative way, we introduce wψwith an order-parameter
field as follows
Z=ZDψσ(x)(x) exp hZdDxn¯
ψσ(x)wψγττivψγiiψσ(x)χϕ(x)¯
ψσ(x)ψσ(x) + Nλχ
2ϕ2(x)oi.
(10)
As expected, wψwill play the role of the wave-function renormalization constant for Dirac fermions.
Now, we perform the RG transformation. First, we separate fast and slow degrees of freedom from all dynamical
fields at a given energy scale Λ, here Dirac fermions ψσ(x) and chiral symmetry breaking fluctuations ϕ(x). Sec-
ond, we integrate over short-distance fluctuations for ϕ(x) and obtain newly-generated effective interactions between
Dirac fermions. Third, we perform the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation for such RG-transformation generated
interactions and have an additional collective field variable, saying ϕ(1)(x) to decompose RG-generated effective in-
teractions. Calling the previous low-energy mode ϕ(0)(x) and shifting ϕ(1)(x) to ϕ(1)(x)ϕ(0)(x), we finish the first
RG transformation for chiral symmetry breaking fluctuations. Fourth, we perform the path integral for short-distance
fluctuations of Dirac fermions. Actually, this RG transformation gives rise to genuine renormalization effects for
all coupling functions introduced in the above UV effective field theory. Although any concrete procedures would
depend on regularization, we have the following structure in the Wilsonian RG transformation. The path integral
for high-energy quantum fluctuations of Dirac fermions generates an effective potential in terms of unrenormalized
coupling functions and ϕ(1)(x). Fifth, taking a functional derivative of the RG-generated effective potential with
respect to each coupling function and ϕ(1)(x), we obtain the so called RG βfunction to encode how the coupling
function evolves through this RG transformation. Calling the previous unrenormalized coupling function that with a
superscript (0), we update it to a renormalized one with a superscript (1). This completes the first iteration of the
RG transformation.
To proceed the second iteration of the RG transformation, we consider quantum fluctuations of ψσ(x) and ϕ(1)(x).
Here, ϕ(0)(x) is determined by free-energy minimization as usual. In this respect ϕ(0)(x) is an energy-scale dependent
order-parameter field as discussed in the introduction. Now, it is straightforward to perform the RG transformation
in a recursive way. Each coupling function with a superscript (k1) renormalizes into that with a superscript (k) by
its RGβfunction. Within these background renormalized coupling functions, the energy-dependent order parameter
field is determined by minimization of the free energy functional. To make the resulting effective field theory be more
tractable, we introduce a continuum variable zto replace the discrete step (k) and rewrite the RG transformation
from (k1) to (k) in a form of the zderivative. As a result, the RG flows of the coupling functions and the RG
evolution of the order-parameter field become manifested through the emergent extradimensional space denoted by
the coordinate z. This completes our nonperturbative RG-MFT [5–12].
All these discussions can be summarized by the following effective field theory
Z=ZDψσ(x)(x, z)Dπϕ(x, z)Dwψ(x, z)Dπwψ(x, z)Dvψ(x, z)Dπvψ(x, z)Dλχ(x, z)Dπλχ(x, z)
exp hZdDxn¯
ψσ(x)wψ(x, zf)γττivψ(x, zf)γiiψσ(x)χ(x, zf)ϕ(x, zf)¯
ψσ(x)ψσ(x) + Nλχ(x, 0)
2ϕ2(x, 0)o
NZzf
0
dz ZdDxnπϕ(x, z)zϕ(x, z)βϕ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]1
2λχ(x, z)π2
ϕ(x, z)
+πwψ(x, z)zwψ(x, z)βwψ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]
+πvψ(x, z)zvψ(x, z)βvψ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]
+πλχ(x, z)zλχ(x, z)βλχ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]
+Veff [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]oi.(11)
Although this expression looks rather complicated, we explain several characteristic features of this effective field
theory, discussed above.
wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), and λχ(x, z) are renormalized coupling functions. In particular, wψ(x, z) is related with the
field renormalization to be clarified in the next subsection. πwψ(x, z), πvψ(x, z), and πλχ(x, z) are their canonical
conjugate fields, respectively. Integrating over these canonical fields, we obtain the RGflow equations for these
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coupling functions as follows
zwψ(x, z) = βwψ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)],(12)
zvψ(x, z) = βvψ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)],(13)
zλχ(x, z) = βλχ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)].(14)
Physical meaning of these first-order differential equations is clear. The real question is how to find these RG
βfunctions in a nonperturbative way, to be clarified below.
ϕ(x, z) is an energy-dependent chiral symmetry breaking order-parameter field, whose dynamics is determined by
minimization of the bulk effective action in the largeNlimit, given by
Sbulk =NZzf
0
dz ZdDxnπϕ(x, z)zϕ(x, z)βϕ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]1
2λχ(x, z)π2
ϕ(x, z)
+Veff [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]o.(15)
πϕ(x, z) is the canonical conjugate field to ϕ(x, z). In this respect this effective bulk action is written in the Hamiltonian
formulation. The essential ingredient is an effective potential Veff [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)], generated by
the RG transformation for Dirac fermions and given by
Veff [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)]
=1
Nln ZΛ(z)
Dψσ(x) exp hZdDxn¯
ψσ(x)wψ(x, z)γττivψ(x, z)γiiψσ(x)χ(x, z)ϕ(x, z)¯
ψσ(x)ψσ(x)oi.
(16)
Here, RΛ(z)Dψσ(x) means that the fermion path integral is performed at a given energy scale Λ(z), which will be
clarified in the next section. Accordingly, the RG βfunction of the chiral condensate is given by the functional
derivative of this effective potential with respect to the order-parameter field [1] as follows
βϕ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = δϕVef f [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = i
NDλχ(x, z)¯
ψσ(x)ψσ(x)E.
(17)
Here, h...iis an ensemble average with respect to the effective action functional
SΛ(z)=ZdDxn¯
ψσ(x)wψ(x, z)γττivψ(x, z)γiiψσ(x)χ(x, z)ϕ(x, z)¯
ψσ(x)ψσ(x)o.(18)
Three other RG βfunctions are given by functional derivatives of this effective potential with respect to the
corresponding coupling function in the following way
βwψ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = δwψVef f [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = 1
ND¯
ψσ(x)γττψσ(x)E,
(19)
βvψ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = δvψVef f [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = i
ND¯
ψσ(x)γxxψσ(x)E,
(20)
βλχ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = δλχVef f [ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] = i
NDϕ(x, z)¯
ψσ(x)ψσ(x)E.
(21)
This procedure is completely consistent with what we learnt in the RG transformation [1].
It is straightforward to find the Hamiltonian equation of motion in the largeNlimit, given by
πϕ(x, z) = λχ(x, z)zϕ(x, z)βϕ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)](22)
and
zπϕ(x, z) = βϕ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)] πϕ(x, z)δϕβϕ[ϕ(x, z), wψ(x, z), vψ(x, z), λχ(x, z)],(23)
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Renormalizationgroupowtoe ectivequantummechanicsatIRinanemergentdualholographicdescriptionforspontaneouschiralsymmetrybreakingKi-SeokKima;b,MitsuhiroNishidaa,andYoonseokChouna;baDepartmentofPhysics,POSTECH,Pohang,Gyeongbuk37673,KoreabAsiaPaci cCenterforTheoreticalPhysics(APCTP),Pohang,Gyeongbuk37673...

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