Functional renormalization for quantum phase transitions with non-relativistic bosons
Abstract
Functional renormalization yields a simple unified description of bosons at zero temperature, in arbitrary space dimension and for complex fields. We concentrate on nonrelativistic bosons and an action with a linear time derivative. The ordered phase can be associated with a nonzero density of (quasi) particles . The behavior of observables and correlation functions in the ordered phase depends crucially on the momentum , which is characteristic for a given experiment. For the dilute regime the quantum phase transition is simple, with the same ``mean field'' critical exponents for all and . On the other hand, the dense regime reveals a rather rich spectrum of features, depending on and . In this regime one observes for a crossover to a relativistic action with second time derivatives. This admits order for , whereas shows a behavior similar to the low temperature phase of the classical two-dimensional -models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0705.1661,
title = {Functional renormalization for quantum phase transitions with non-relativistic bosons},
author = {C. Wetterich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.1661},
year = {2009}
}