Functional Renormalization - from quantum gravity and dark energy to ultracold atoms and condensed matter

Functional Renormalization provides a bridge from fundamental microphysical laws to macroscopic complexity and observations. Acting like a "theoretical microscope" with variable resolution, it includes in a stepwise procedure the fluctuation effects which are responsible for the emergence of complexity. It describes macroscopic phenomena that are not directly visible on the microscopic level as order, phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking, and is flexible enough to accommodate the change of effective degrees of freedom and associated effective laws. The laws of Nature become dependent on the length scale.

Functional Renormalization has many applications to areas ranging from ultracold atoms and condensed matter systems over heavy ion collisions and the phase structure of QCD to early universe cosmology and quantum gravity.

The workshop brings together leading scientists from these different research areas using Functional Renormalization. It aims specifically to summarise the progress made in the last five years in these areas as well as the development of Functional Renormalization itself.

https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~frg-meeting/

Contact:

Prof. Jan M. Pawlowski
Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Theoretische Physik
Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 549 429
Email: j.pawlowski@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de

Prof. Christof Wetterich
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 549 340
Email: c.wetterich@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de