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Renormalization Group

Renormalization Group is a mathematical framework in theoretical physics that systematically relates the macroscopic behavior of a physical system to its microscopic structure by iteratively averaging out short-distance fluctuations while preserving essential physical properties across different length scales.

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Density matrix formulation for quantum renormalization groups

Steven R. White · Physical Review Letters · 1992 · 7.8K citations

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Theory of dynamic critical phenomena

P. C. Hohenberg, Bertrand I. Halperin · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1977 · 6.9K citations

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Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces

Mehran Kardar, Giorgio Parisi, Yi-Cheng Zhang · Physical Review Letters · 1986 · 5.4K citations

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The renormalization group and the ε expansion

Kenneth G. Wilson · Physics Reports · 1974 · 5.2K citations

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The renormalization group: Critical phenomena and the Kondo problem

Kenneth G. Wilson · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1975 · 4.5K citations

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  1. SR
    Steven R. White

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    58 publications · 21.5K citations

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    Pierre Le Doussal

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    52 publications · 4.3K citations

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  3. JM
    Jan M. Pawlowski

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    44 publications · 5.3K citations

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    Ulrich Schollwöck

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

    42 publications · 6K citations

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  5. SJ
    Stanley J. Brodsky

    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, United States

    45 publications · 4.5K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    88 h-index

    397 publications

    72.2K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    84 h-index

    1.2K publications

    61.2K citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    81 h-index

    527 publications

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  4. European Organization for Nuclear Research

    Geneva, Switzerland

    76 h-index

    336 publications

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  5. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    73 h-index

    314 publications

    48K citations

  6. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    71 h-index

    308 publications

    59.6K citations

  7. Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg, Germany

    71 h-index

    369 publications

    29.1K citations

  8. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    70 h-index

    478 publications

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 1.2K publications · 134K citations

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  3. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

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  4. Physical Review B

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