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The renormalization group plays an essential role in many areas of physics, both conceptually and as a practical tool to determine the long-distance low-energy properties of many systems on the one hand and on the other hand search for viable ultraviolet completions in fundamental physics. It provides us with a natural framework to study theoretical models where degrees of freedom are correlated over long distances and that may exhibit very distinct behavior on different energy scales. The nonperturbative functional renormalization-group (FRG) approach is a modern implementation of Wilson's RG, which allows one to set up nonperturbative approximation schemes that go beyond the standard perturbative RG approaches. The FRG is based on an exact functional flow equation of a coarse-grained effective action (or Gibbs free energy in the language of statistical mechanics). We review the main approximation schemes that are commonly used to solve this flow equation and discuss applications in equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium statistical physics, quantum many-particle systems, high-energy physics and quantum gravity.
v3) Review article, 93 pages + bibliography, 35 figures
High Energy Physics - Theory, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), 530, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), ultraviolet, Field theory, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, Functional methods, [PHYS.GRQC] Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech), [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], approximation: nonperturbative, free energy, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], [PHYS.HPHE] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, effective action, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), quantum gravity, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], flow, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], [PHYS.HTHE] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], statistical mechanics, renormalization group, Renormalization group, statistical
High Energy Physics - Theory, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), 530, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), ultraviolet, Field theory, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, Functional methods, [PHYS.GRQC] Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech), [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], approximation: nonperturbative, free energy, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], [PHYS.HPHE] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, effective action, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), quantum gravity, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], flow, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], [PHYS.HTHE] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], statistical mechanics, renormalization group, Renormalization group, statistical
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