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banks-zaks fixed point

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables
banks-zak-s -fixed -point
IPA
51
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In quantum chromodynamics with massless flavours, where the number of flavours is sufficiently small (i.e. small enough to guarantee asymptotic freedom, depending on the number of colours), an interacting conformal fixed point of the renormalization group where the value of the coupling is less than one (i.e. one can perform perturbation theory in weak coupling).

Etymology

First reported by William E. Caswell in 1974, and later used by Banks and Zaks in their analysis of the phase structure of vector-like gauge theories with massless fermions.

Inflected Forms

Banks-Zaks fixed points (plural)

Questions

What does banks-zaks fixed point mean?
In quantum chromodynamics with massless flavours, where the number of flavours is sufficiently small (i.e. small enough to guarantee asymptotic freedom, depending on the number of colours), an interacting conformal fixed point of the renormalization group where the value of the coupling is less than one (i.e. one can perform perturbation theory in weak coupling).
Where does banks-zaks fixed point come from?
First reported by William E. Caswell in 1974, and later used by Banks and Zaks in their analysis of the phase structure of vector-like gauge theories with massless fermions.

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