https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-026-01134-1
Research - Condensed Matter
Diagrammatic bosonization, aspects of criticality, and the Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem in parquet approaches
Theoretical Physics III, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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Received:
2
October
2025
Accepted:
28
January
2026
Published online:
20
February
2026
Abstract
The parquet equations present a cornerstone of some of the most important diagrammatic many-body approximations and methods currently on the market for strongly correlated materials: from non-local extensions of the dynamical mean-field theory to the functional renormalization group. The recently introduced single-boson exchange decomposition of the vertex presents an alternative set of equivalent equations in terms of screened interactions, Hedin vertices, and rest functions. This formulation has garnered much attention for several reasons: opening the door to new approximations, for avoiding vertex divergences associated with local moment formation plaguing the traditional parquet decomposition, and for its interpretative advantage in its built-in diagrammatic identification of bosons without resorting to Hubbard–Stratonovich transformations. In this work, we show how the fermionic diagrams of the particle–particle and particle–hole polarizations in the SBE formalism can be mapped to diagrammatics of a bosonic self-energy of two respective bosonic theories with pure bosonic constituents, solidifying the identification of the screened interaction with a bosonic propagator. Resorting to a spin-diagonalized basis for the bosonic fields and neglecting the coupling between singlet and triplet components are shown to recover the trace log theory known from Hubbard–Stratonovich transformations. Armed with this concrete mapping, we revisit a conjecture claiming that universal aspects of the parquet approximation coincide with those of the self-consistent screening approximation for a bosonic O(N) model. We comment on the role of the self-energy and crossing symmetry in enforcing the Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem in parquet-related approaches.
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