In physics, a one-loop Feynman diagram is a connected Feynman diagram with only one cycle. Such a diagram can be obtained from a connected tree diagram by taking two external lines of the same type and joining them together into an edge. Diagrams with loops (in graph theory, these kinds of loops are called cycles, while the word loop is an edge connecting a vertex with itself) correspond to the quantum corrections to the classical field theory.

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  • In physics, a one-loop Feynman diagram is a connected Feynman diagram with only one cycle. Such a diagram can be obtained from a connected tree diagram by taking two external lines of the same type and joining them together into an edge. Diagrams with loops (in graph theory, these kinds of loops are called cycles, while the word loop is an edge connecting a vertex with itself) correspond to the quantum corrections to the classical field theory. Because one-loop diagrams only contain one cycle, they express the next-to-classical contributions called the semiclassical contributions. One-loop diagrams are usually computed as the integral over one independent momentum that can "run in the cycle". The Casimir effect and Hawking radiation are examples of phenomena whose existence can be proved using one-loop Feynman diagrams, especially the well-known "triangle diagram": The evaluation of one-loop Feynman diagrams usually leads to divergent expressions, which are either due to zero-mass particles in the cycle of the diagram or due to insufficient falloff of the integrand for high momenta. The former are usually dealt with by assigning the zero mass particles a small mass λ, evaluating the corresponding expression and then taking the limit <math>\lambda \to 0</math>, the latter are dealt with in the renormalization program. The one-loop corrections lead to the following effective action: <math>\Gamma[\phi]=S[\phi]+\frac{1}{2} \mathop{\mathrm{Tr}}{\left[\ln {S^{(2)}[\phi]}\right]+\dots}</math>
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  • In physics, a one-loop Feynman diagram is a connected Feynman diagram with only one cycle. Such a diagram can be obtained from a connected tree diagram by taking two external lines of the same type and joining them together into an edge. Diagrams with loops (in graph theory, these kinds of loops are called cycles, while the word loop is an edge connecting a vertex with itself) correspond to the quantum corrections to the classical field theory.
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  • One-loop Feynman diagram
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