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Functional renormalization for quantum phase transitions with non-relativistic bosons

Superconductivity 2009-11-13 v3 Astrophysics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Functional renormalization yields a simple unified description of bosons at zero temperature, in arbitrary space dimension dd and for MM 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 nn. The behavior of observables and correlation functions in the ordered phase depends crucially on the momentum kphk_{ph}, which is characteristic for a given experiment. For the dilute regime kphn1/dk_{ph}\gtrsim n^{1/d} the quantum phase transition is simple, with the same ``mean field'' critical exponents for all dd and MM. On the other hand, the dense regime kphn1/dk_{ph}\ll n^{1/d} reveals a rather rich spectrum of features, depending on dd and MM. In this regime one observes for d3d\leq 3 a crossover to a relativistic action with second time derivatives. This admits order for d>1d>1, whereas d=1d=1 shows a behavior similar to the low temperature phase of the classical two-dimensional O(2M)O(2M)-models.

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@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}
}
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