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Direct Calculation of the Critical Effective Potential H. Ballhausen∗ Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany The critical effective potential is the nonperturbative part of the effective action at a phase transition. It equals the scale invariant effective average potential and can be calculated from the renormaliza- tion group flow of the effective average action. In some cases this requires only the solution of an ordinary differential equation without actually simulating the renormalization group flow. Here the Ising model is examined beyond leading order and with full field dependent effective potential. Introduction ρ = 1 ϕ(x)2 ϕ ∈ IR3 → IR 2 3 The effective potential in statistical physics and quantum in terms of the most general form of the nonperturbative 0 field theory [1, 2] includes fluctuations of all wavelenghts effective average potential Uk (ρ) and a field independent 0 as opposed to the microscopic potential. It is therefore but scale dependent wave function renormalization Zk . 2 relevant for the computation of macroscopic properties. r When inserted into the flow equation for the effective p A The usual way to access the effective potential is to start average action this ansatz gives the flow of the effective with the