The two-loop functional renormalization-group approach to the one- and two-dimensional Hubbard model

TL;DR

This paper develops a two-loop functional renormalization-group method to analyze the low-dimensional Hubbard model, capturing both universal and non-universal effects, and compares its results with existing approaches to improve understanding of electronic correlations.

Contribution

The paper introduces a two-loop fRG approach that includes non-universal contributions, providing more accurate insights into the Hubbard model's behavior than previous one-loop methods.

Findings

Two-loop fRG suppresses vertices and susceptibilities compared to one-loop approaches.

Results are closer to projected one-loop results, especially away from van Hove filling.

The quasiparticle weight remains finite at moderate temperatures in two dimensions.

Abstract

We consider the application of the two-loop functional renormalization-group (fRG) approach to study the low-dimensional Hubbard model. This approach accounts for both, the universal and non-universal contributions to the RG flow. While the universal contributions were studied previously within the field-theoretical RG for the one-dimensional Hubbard model with linearized electronic dispersion and the two-dimensional Hubbard model with flat Fermi surface, the non-universal contributions appear to be important for the flow of the vertices and susceptibilities at large momenta scales. The two-loop fRG approach is also applied to the two-dimensional Hubbard model with a curved Fermi surface and the van Hove singularities near the Fermi level. The vertices and susceptibilities in the end of the flow of the two-loop approch are suppressed in comparison with both the one-loop approach with vertex projection and the modified one-loop approach with corrected vertex projection errors. The results of the two-loop approach are closer to the results of one-loop approach with the projected vertices, the difference of the results of one- and two-loop fRG approaches decreases when going away from the van Hove band filling. The quasiparticle weight remains finite in two dimensions at not too low temperatures above the paramagnetic ground state.