PHYSICAL REVIEW D 103, 056015 (2021)
Field dependence of the Yukawa coupling in the three flavor quark-meson model
† G. Fejős * and A. Patkós Institute of Physics, Eötvös University, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
(Received 16 November 2020; accepted 23 February 2021; published 22 March 2021)
We investigate the renormalization group flow of the field-dependent Yukawa coupling in the framework of the three flavor quark-meson model. In a conventional perturbative calculation, given that the field rescaling is trivial, the Yukawa coupling does not get renormalized at the one-loop level if it is coupled to an equal number of scalar and pseudoscalar fields. Its field-dependent version, however, does flow with respect to the scale. Using the functional renormalization group technique, we show that it is highly nontrivial how to extract the actual flow of the Yukawa coupling as there are several new chirally invariant operators that get generated by quantum fluctuations in the effective action, which need to be distinguished from that of the Yukawa interaction.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.056015
I. INTRODUCTION the fermions and the field strength renormalization is trivial [6]. In phenomenological investigations of the two and One of the merits of the functional renormalization group three flavor quark-meson models, several papers have dealt (FRG) technique is that it allows for calculating the flows of with the nonperturbative renormalization of the Yukawa n-point functions nonperturbatively. Via the FRG one has coupling. The essence of the corresponding calculations is the freedom to evaluate the scale dependence of them in that one determines the RG flow of the fermion-fermion- nonzero background field configurations, which is thought meson proper vertex, defined as δ3Γ=δ ψδ¯ ψδϕ in a given to be essential once spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs L R background (Γ being the effective action), and then [1–3]. For the sake of an example, in scalar ðϕÞ theories, associates it with the flow of the Yukawa coupling itself. quantum corrections to the wave function renormalization This obviously works for one flavor models [7,8], and even (Z) typically vanish at the one-loop level, but using the for the two flavor case [9,10], in particular for models FRG one gets a nonzero contribution once one generalizes restricted to the σ − π subsector, i.e., with Oð4Þ symmetry the corresponding kinetic term in the effective action as μ in the meson part of the theory. The reason why the ∼Z ϕ ∂μϕ∂ ϕ Z ð Þ and evaluates at a symmetry breaking approach has legitimacy in the latter case is that it turns out stationary point of the effective action. This procedure is that the only way fluctuations generate new Yukawa-like essential, e.g., in two-dimensional systems that undergo operators in the quantum effective action is that the original topological phase transitions, as the wave function renorm- Yukawa term is multiplied by powers of the quadratic Oð4Þ alization is known to be diverging in the low temperature invariant of the meson fields. That is to say, one is allowed phase, which cannot be described in terms of perturbation to choose, e.g., a vacuum expectation value for which all theory [4]. Similarly, in four dimensions, it has recently been pseudoscalar (π) fields vanish, but the scalar (s) one is shown that in the three flavor linear sigma model the nonzero, and associate ∼s2 with the aforementioned quad- ‘ ’ coefficient of t Hooft s determinant term also receives ratic invariant leading to the appropriate determination of substantial contributions when evaluated at nonzero field [5]. the field dependence of the Yukawa coupling. A similar treatment should be in order for Yukawa The situation is not that simple in case of three flavors, interactions, whose renormalization group flow vanishes i.e., chiral symmetry of ULð3Þ × URð3Þ. Since the effective at the one-loop level, if complex scalar fields are coupled to action automatically respects linearly realized symmetries of the Lagrangian, field dependence of any coupling must *[email protected] mean all possible functional dependence on chirally invari- † [email protected] ant operators. Because there are more invariants compared to the two flavor case, if one chooses a specific background Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of for the evaluation of the RG flow of the fermion-fermion- the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. “ ” Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to meson vertex, one may arrive at an effective Yukawa the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, interaction, but it will then mix in that specific background and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. the contribution of different chirally invariant operators.
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The reason is that for three flavors other operators than that The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we present the of the Yukawa term (multiplied by powers of the quadratic model emphasizing its symmetry properties. We explicitly invariant) can get generated, which are presumably not show what kind of new operators can be generated and set an even considered neither in the Lagrangian nor in the ansatz ansatz for the scale-dependent effective action accordingly. of the effective action. The newly emerging operators in Section III contains the explicit calculation of the flows principle cannot be distinguished from the Yukawa inter- generated by the field-dependent Yukawa coupling, and action if the background is too simple, and as it will be Sec. IVis devoted to an extended scenariowhere at the lowest shown, a naive calculation squeezes inappropriate terms order the newly established operators are also taken into into the Yukawa flow, which should be separated via the account. In Sec. V, we present numerical evidence for the choice of a suitable background and projected out. relevance of the proposed procedure, while the reader finds Investigations of the three flavor case including the the summary in Sec. VI. effects of the UAð1Þ anomaly were started by Mitter and Schaefer. In a first paper, no RG evolution of the Yukawa II. MODEL AND SYMMETRY PROPERTIES coupling was taken into account [11]. This approximation We are working with the U ð1Þ anomaly free three flavor was carried over in several directions, including inves- A quark-meson model, which is defined through the follow- tigations regarding magnetic [12] and topological [13] ing Euclidean Lagrangian: susceptibilities, mass dependence of the chiral transition [14], or quark stars [15]. † 2 † L ¼ Trð∂iM ∂iMÞþm TrðM MÞ A strategy for extracting the RG flow of the field- λ¯ † 2 λ¯ † † dependent Yukawa coupling was presented by Pawlowski þ 1ðTrðM MÞÞ þ 2TrðM MM MÞ and Rennecke, explicitly realized for the two flavor case þ q¯ð=∂ þ gM5Þq; ð1Þ [10]. In this paper, interaction vertices arising from the π expansion of the field-dependent Yukawa coupling were where M stands for the meson fields, M ¼ðsa þ i aÞTa λ 2 3 λ also analyzed and it was found that higher order mesonic (Ta ¼ a= are generators of Uð Þ with a being the Gell- interactions to two quarks are gradually less important. Mann matrices, a ¼ 0…8), qT ¼ðudsÞ are the quarks, and 2 These results were further used in recent ambitious com- M5 ¼ðs þ iπ γ5ÞT .Asusual,m is the mass parameter ¯ ¯ a a a putations of the meson spectra from effective models and λ1, λ2 refer to independent quartic couplings. The fermion directly matched to QCD [16,17]. The method of [10] part contains =∂≡∂iγi, γ5 ¼ iγ0γ1γ2γ3 with fγig being the was then applied for extracting the flow of the Yukawa Dirac matrices and the Yukawa coupling is denoted by g. coupling in the 2 þ 1 flavor (realistic) quark-meson model Concerning the meson fields, ULð3Þ × URð3Þ ≃ [18]. The prescription used in the latter calculation relies on UVð3Þ × UAð3Þ chiral symmetry manifests itself as a symmetry breaking background, from which a field- † † † independent Yukawa coupling is extracted. A similar M → VMV ;M→ A MA ð2Þ approach has already been introduced in the seminal paper of Jungnickel and Wetterich [19], where a diagonal for vector and axialvector transformations, respectively, θa θa symmetry breaking background was employed in calculat- V ¼ expði VTaÞ, A ¼ expði ATaÞ. This also implies that ing the RG equation of the Yukawa coupling (for general † † † number of flavors). As a generalization, here we offer a M5 → VM5V ;M5 → A5M5A5; ð3Þ renormalization procedure of the field-dependent Yukawa θa γ coupling realizable in any symmetry breaking background where A5 ¼ expði ATa 5Þ. As for the quarks, the trans- through a chirally invariant set of operators. formation properties are More specifically, the aim of this paper is to show how to separate the field-dependent Yukawa interaction from those q → Vq; q → A5q: ð4Þ new fermion-fermion-multimeson couplings that unavoid- γ γ 0 ably arise as three flavor chiral symmetry allows for a much Note that, since f i; 5g¼ , larger set of operators in the infrared than considering only † q¯ → qV¯ ; q¯ → qA¯ 5: ð5Þ a field-dependent Yukawa coupling. For this, the right-hand side (rhs) of the evolution equation of the effective action These transformation properties guarantee that all will be evaluated in such a background that allows for terms in (1) are invariant under vector and axialvector expressing it in terms of explicitly invariant operators, as it transformations. was demonstrated for purely mesonic theories some time The quantum effective action, Γ, built upon the theory ago [20–23]. We also note that apart from the above defined in (1) also has to respect chiral symmetry. That is to applications, recent studies on a lower Higgs mass bound say, only chirally invariant combinations of the fields can [24] and on quantum criticality [25] also deal with field- emerge in Γ. For three flavors, there exist three independent dependent Yukawa interactions. invariants made out of the M fields,
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† ρ ≔ TrðM MÞ; the renormalization group flow of gðρÞ, then we need a τ ≔ TrðM†M − TrðM†MÞ=3Þ2; strategy to distinguish each operator at a given order, in order † † 3 to be able to resum only the Yukawa interactions, and not the ρ3 ≔ TrðM M − TrðM MÞ=3Þ ; ð6Þ aforementioned new quark-quark-multimeson operators. Obviously, this procedure cannot be done through a one where the last one is absent in (1) due to perturbative component background field, e.g., the vectorlike condensate UV renormalizability, but nothing prevents its generation in M ∼ s0 · 1, as it mixes up the corresponding operators, and the infrared. In principle, the chiral effective potential, V, Γ one loses the chance to recombine the field dependence into Rdefined via homogeneous field configurations, jhom ¼ actual invariant tensors. ρ τ ρ x V has to be of the form V ¼ Vð ; ; 3Þ. Obviously, the The flow of the effective action is described by the generalized Yukawa term Wetterich equation [27,28] Z gðρ; τ; ρ3Þ · qM¯ 5q ð7Þ 1 2 ∂ Γ Γð Þ R −1∂ R ; k k ¼ 2 Tr½ð k þ kÞ k k ð12Þ can (and does) also appear in Γ, but in this paper we restrict ourselves to Γð2Þ where k is the second functional derivative matrix of Γ and R is the regulator function. One typically gðρ; τ; ρ3Þ ≈ gðρÞ: ð8Þ k k chooses it to be diagonal in momentum space, and set Rk R 2π 4 δ This is motivated from a symmetry breaking point of view, as kðp; qÞ¼ð Þ RkðqÞ ðq þ pÞ. Evaluating (12) in i.e., without explicit symmetry breaking terms in (1), chiral Fourier space leads to symmetry breaks as ULð3Þ × URð3Þ → UVð3Þ [26], and for Z 1 2 any background field respecting vector symmetries, ∂ Γ Γð Þ R −1 p; −p ∂ R p : k k ¼ 2 Tr½ð k þ kÞ ð Þ k kð Þ ð13Þ τ ≡ 0 ≡ ρ3. We can think of gðρÞ as p X∞ In this paper, the equation will be evaluated only in ρ ρn ρ … gð Þ¼ gn ¼ðg0 þ g1 · þ Þ; ð9Þ spacetime-independent background fields; therefore, one 0 n¼ Γð2Þ assumes that k is also diagonal in momentum space, which shows that it actually resums operators of the Γð2Þ 2π 4Γð2Þ δ † n k ðp; qÞ¼ð Þ k ðqÞ ðq þ pÞ. In such backgrounds, form ∼½TrðM MÞ qM¯ 5q. it is sufficientR to work with the effective potential, Vk, via Note that, however, as announced in the Introduction, Γ j ¼ V , and (13) leads to there are several other invariant combinations at a given k hom x k Z order that are allowed by chiral symmetry and contribute to 1 2 ∂ V Γð Þ p −1∂ R p ; quark-meson interactions. Take the lowest nontrivial order, k k ¼ 2 Trfð k ð RÞÞ k kð Þg ð14Þ i.e., dimension 6. We have two invariant combinations, p
† where we have assumed that the regulator matrix Rk is ∼ρ · qM¯ 5q; ∼qM¯ 5M5M5q: ð10Þ meant to replace everywhere p with pR, where pR is the regulated momentum through the R function, i.e., Obviously the first one is to be incorporated into the k p2 ¼ p2 þ R ðpÞ, p ¼ p pˆ . field-dependent Yukawa coupling, but not the second one. R k Ri R i The ansatz we choose for Γ is called the local potential Note that one may think of the fifth Dirac matrix as the k approximation, which consists of the usual kinetic terms difference between left- and right-handed projectors, and a local potential (in this case, specifically, a mesonic γ5 ¼ PR − PL, and therefore, e.g., the first expression ¯ ¯ † potential plus the Yukawa term), is equivalent to qLMqR þ qRM qL and the second to Z ¯ † ¯ † † qLMM MqR þ qRM MM qL. Thus, one can trade the † Γk ¼ ½Trð∂iM ∂iMÞþq¯=∂q M5 dependence to M dependence in the invariants via x working with left- and right-handed quarks separately. þ V ðρ; τ; ρ3Þþg ðρÞqM¯ 5q : ð15Þ Going to next-to-leading order, we see the emergence of ch;k k ρ ¯ the following new terms [note that for general configura- Using the earlier notation, Vk ¼ Vch;k þ gkð ÞqM5q. Note † † tions TrðM5M5Þ¼TrðM MÞ]: that the chiral potential will not be considered in its full generality, but rather as V ¼ U ðρÞþC ðρÞτ. Flows of 2 † † † ch;k k k ∼ρ qM¯ 5q; ∼ρ qM¯ 5M M5q; ∼qM¯ 5M M5M M5q; · · 5 5 5 Uk and Ck can be found in [23]. Note that this construction could be easily extended with ‘t Hooft’s determinant term ð11Þ † describing the UAð1Þ anomaly, ∼ðdet M þ det M Þ, and the and we might even have ∼τ · qM¯ 5q, though we intend to drop corresponding coefficient function. Investigations in this such contributions; see approximation (8). If we are to extract direction are beyond the scope of this paper.
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III. FLOW OF THE FIELD-DEPENDENT where the mass matrices are defined through the following YUKAWA COUPLING relations: In this section, we evaluate (13) in homogeneous back- ground fields to obtain the flow of gkðρÞ, defined in (15). 2 Calculating Γð Þ using the ansatz (15), one gets the following 2 ∂2 ∂ ∂ 2 ∂2 ∂π ∂π k ðms;kÞij ¼ Vk= si sj; ðmπ;kÞij ¼ Vk= i j; hypermatrix in the fsa; πa; q¯ T;qg multicomponent space: 2 ∂2 ∂ ∂π 0 1 ðmsπ;kÞij ¼ Vk= si j: ð17Þ p2 þ m2 m2 −g ðTq⃗ ÞT g q¯ T⃗ B s;k sπ;k k k C B 2 2 2 ⃗ T ⃗ C B mπ p þ mπ −igkðγ5TqÞ igkq¯ T γ5 C B s;k ;k C; B ⃗ ⃗ C Γð2Þ @ gkTq igkγ5Tq 0 ip= þ gkM5 A For practical purposes, it is worth to separate k into three ð2Þ ð2Þ ð2Þ ð2Þ ⃗T ⃗T parts [29,30], Γ ¼ Γ þ Γ þ Γ , where the respec- −gkðq¯TÞ −igkðq¯TÞ γ5 −ip= − gkM5 0 k k;B k;F k;mix tive terms are defined as ð16Þ
0 1 0 1 2 2 2 00 00 0 0 p þ ms;k msπ;k B 2 2 2 C B C 2 B m p m 00C 2 B 00 0 0 C Γð Þ B πs;k þ π;k C Γð Þ B C k;B ¼ @ A; k;F ¼ @ A; 0000 00 0 ip= þ gkM5 0000 00−ip= − g M5 0 0 k 1 ⃗ T ⃗ 00−gkðTqÞ gkq¯ T 2 ! B C 0 Γð Þ B ⃗ T ⃗ C 2 k;FB B 00−ig ðγ5TqÞ ig q¯ T γ5 C Γð Þ ≡ ¼ B k k C: ð18Þ k;mix Γð2Þ 0 B ⃗ γ ⃗ 00C k;BF @ gkTq igk 5Tq A ⃗ T ⃗ T −gkðq¯ TÞ −igkðq¯ TÞ γ5 00
Using these notations, and by introducing the differential interested in the flow of the Yukawa coupling; thus, ˜ operator ∂k, which, by definition acts only on the regulator we need to identify in the rhs of (20) the operator function, Rk, (14) can be conveniently reformulated. ∼qM¯ 5q. Diagrammatically, the commonly known term We may use the matrix identity that contributes is seen in Fig. 1, which is generated ! from the leading term of the last contribution of the rhs Γð2Þ Γð2Þ k;B k;BF of (20), Γð2Þ Γð2Þ k;FB k;F Z ! ! 1 ð2Þ ð2Þ ð2Þ ð2Þ −1 ð2Þ − ∂˜ Γ Γ Γ 0 1 Γ Γ kTr½Gk;FðpRÞ k;FBGk;BðpRÞ k;BF : ð21Þ k;B ð k;BÞ k;BF 2 ¼ ð19Þ p Γð2Þ 1 0 Γð2Þ − Γð2Þ Γð2Þ −1Γð2Þ k;FB k;F k;FBð k;BÞ k;BF More specifically, it reads and arrive at Z 1 2 ∂ V ∂˜ Γð Þ p k k ¼ 2 kTr log k ð RÞ Zp Z 1 2 1 2 ∂˜ Γð Þ p ∂˜ Γð Þ p ¼ 2 kTr log k;Bð RÞþ2 kTr log k;Fð RÞ pZ p 1 ∂˜ 1 − Γð2Þ Γð2Þ þ kTr log½ Gk;FðpRÞ k;FBGk;BðpRÞ k;BF ; 2 p ð20Þ FIG. 1. One-loop triangle diagram that is responsible for Γð2Þ −1 Γð2Þ −1 where Gk;B ¼ð k;BÞ , Gk;F ¼ð k;FÞ and the negative flowing quark-meson interactions. The solid lines correspond sign of the pure fermionic term is understood. We are to quarks, while the dashed ones represent mesons.
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−1 where SkðpÞ¼ðip þ gkM5Þ is the fermion propagator without doubling, while Gk;s, Gk;π, and Gk;sπ are the respective 9 × 9 submatrices of Gk;B in a purely bosonic background (see Appendix B). In principle, the evaluation of (22) goes as follows. First, one evaluates Γk;B, then inverts it to obtain Gk;s, Gk;π, and Gk;sπ. Second, one inverts the fermion propagator, and finally performs all matrix FIG. 2. One-loop tadpole diagram arising from the field- ¯ dependent Yukawa interaction, which allows the generation of multiplications to get the operator that is sandwiched by q new quark-meson vertices in the RG flow. The solid lines and q. Note that the procedure turns out to be too correspond to quarks, while the dashed ones represent mesons. complicated to be carried out in a general background, but as we explain in the next subsections, fortunately we will not need to evaluate (22) in its full generality. On top of the above, via a field-dependent Yukawa coupling there is also contribution from the first term of (20), as meson masses get modified by a fermionic back- ground (see Appendix B) leading to the possibility of generating a ∼qM¯ 5q term in the effective action; see Fig. 2. Generically, this contributes to the rhs of (20) as ð22Þ
ð23Þ