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Functional renormalization with interaction flows: A single-boson exchange perspective and application to electron-phonon systems

Aiman Al-Eryani1,*, Marcel Gievers2,†, and Kilian Fraboulet3,4,5,‡

  • *Contact author: aiman.al-eryani@rub.de
  • †Contact author: marcel.gievers@tuwien.ac.at
  • ‡Contact author: k.fraboulet@fkf.mpg.de
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Phys. Rev. Research 8, 023029 – Published 8 April, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/7y6x-p6zx

Abstract

The functional renormalization group (fRG) is acknowledged as a powerful tool in quantum many-body physics and beyond. On the technical side, conventional implementations of the fRG rely on regulators for bare propagators only. Starting from Schwinger-Dyson and Bethe-Salpeter equations, we develop here an fRG formulation where both bare propagators and bare interactions can be dressed with regulators. The approach thus obtained is an extension of the multiloop fRG recently introduced for many-fermion systems. Using the single-boson exchange decomposition, we show that the underlying flow equations are simply interpreted as adding a regulator to the bosonic propagator and that such an extension scarcely changes the original structure of the flow equations. Overall, we provide a framework for implementing approaches that cannot be realized with conventional fRG methods, such as temperature flows for models with retarded interactions. For concrete applications, we analyze the loop convergence of our formulation against a conventional cutoff scheme for the Anderson impurity model. Finally, we devise a temperature-flow scheme that implements a cutoff in both the propagator and the bare interaction, and demonstrate its validity on a model of an Anderson impurity coupled to a phonon.

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