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We study the phase fluctuations in the normal state of generic two-dimensional superconducting systems with s-wave pairing. The effect of phase fluctuations of the pairing fields can be dealt with perturbatively using disorder averaging,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-02 Xu-Cheng Wang , Yang Qi

A quantum critical point (QCP) is a singularity in the phase diagram arising due to quantum mechanical fluctuations. The exotic properties of some of the most enigmatic physical systems, including unconventional metals and superconductors,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-13 P. Merchant , B. Normand , K. W. Krämer , M. Boehm , D. F. McMorrow , Ch. Rüegg

We give a general introduction to quantum phase transitions in strongly-correlated electron systems. These transitions which occur at zero temperature when a non-thermal parameter $g$ like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lavagna

In recent years, quantum phase transitions have attracted the interest of both theorists and experimentalists in condensed matter physics. These transitions, which are accessed at zero temperature by variation of a non-thermal control…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Vojta

A quantum phase transition may occur in the ground state of a system at zero temperature when a controlling field or interaction is varied. The resulting quantum fluctuations which trigger the transition produce scaling behavior of various…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-14 Abolfazl Bayat , Henrik Johannesson , Sougato Bose , Pasquale Sodano

Quantum phase transitions have been the subject of intense investigations in the last two decades [1]. Among other problems, these phase transitions are relevant in the study of heavy fermion systems, high temperature superconductors and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 M. A. Continentino , A. S. Ferreira

The interplay of quantum fluctuations with nonlinear dynamics is a central topic in the study of open quantum systems, connected to fundamental issues (such as decoherence and the quantum-classical transition) and practical applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael A. Armen , Hideo Mabuchi

Small changes in an external parameter can often lead to dramatic qualitative changes in the lowest energy quantum mechanical ground state of a correlated electron system. In anisotropic crystals, such as the high temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Subir Sachdev

We study an arbitrary non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum bipartite system coupled to a reservoir. For its characterization, we present a fluctuation theorem (FT) that explicitly addresses the quantum correlation of subsystems during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Jung Jun Park , Hyunchul Nha , Sang Wook Kim , Vlatko Vedral

We study the order parameter phase fluctuation effects in cuprate superconductors near T=0, using a quasi-two-dimensional d-wave BCS model. An effective phason theory is obtained which is used to estimate the strength of the fluctuations,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Hyok-Jon Kwon , Alan T. Dorsey , P. J. Hirschfeld

Spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism in quantum phase transitions manifests the existence of degenerate groundstates in broken symmetry phases. To detect such degenerate groundstates, we introduce a quantum fidelity as an overlap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-11 Yao Heng Su , Bing-Quan Hu , Sheng-Hao Li , Sam Young Cho

We study the superconducting order parameter fluctuations near the phase transition into the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell state in the clean limit at zero temperature. In contrast to the usual normal metal-to-uniform superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 K. V. Samokhin , M. S. Mar'enko

Recent advances in the development of modern quantum technologies have opened the possibility of studying the interplay between spontaneous parametric down-conversion and optomechanics, two of the most fundamental nonlinear optical…

Within the framework of an exactly solvable model, which takes into account the interaction of fluctuating modes with equal and opposite momenta, we consider phase diagrams in systems with coupled scalar order parameters. We show that, in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Nicolaides , A. A. Lisyansky

We study the quantum phase transition of the one-dimensional phase model in the presence of dissipative frustration, provided by an interaction of the system with the environment through two non-commuting operators. Such a model can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Dominik Maile , Sabine Andergassen , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

We consider the behaviour of open quantum systems in dependence on the coupling to one decay channel by introducing the coupling parameter $\alpha$ being proportional to the average degree of overlapping. Under critical conditions, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Jung , M. Mueller , I. Rotter

We study a $U(N)\times U(N)$ symmetric scalar field model in four and three dimensions. First, using our data in four dimensions in the weak coupling region, we demonstrate explicitly that the observed first order phase transition is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Yue Shen

This paper presents a unified perspective on the results of two recent works (C. Buragohain and S. Sachdev cond-mat/9811083 and S. Sachdev cond-mat/9810399) along with additional background. We describe the low frequency, non-zero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev

We study the nonequilibrium properties of an electronic circuit composed of a double quantum dot (DQD) channel coupled to a quantum point contact (QPC) within the framework of stochastic thermodynamics. We show that the transition rates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito

We propose the necessary and sufficient condition for the presence of quantum entanglement in arbitrary symmetric pure states of two-level atomic systems. We introduce a parameter to quantify quantum entanglement in such systems. We express…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Ram Narayan Deb