Renormalization group flow for fermionic superfluids at zero temperature

dc.creatorStrack, P.
dc.creatorGersch, R.
dc.creatorMetzner, W.
dc.date2008-04-24
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dc.descriptionWe present a comprehensive analysis of quantum fluctuation effects in the superfluid ground state of an attractively interacting Fermi system, employing the attractive Hubbard model as a prototype. The superfluid order parameter, and fluctuations thereof, are implemented by a bosonic Hubbard-Stratonovich field, which splits into two components corresponding to longitudinal and transverse (Goldstone) fluctuations. Physical properties of the system are computed from a set of approximate flow equations obtained by truncating the exact functional renormalization group flow of the coupled fermion-boson action. The equations capture the influence of fluctuations on non-universal quantities such as the fermionic gap, as well as the universal infrared asymptotics present in every fermionic superfluid. We solve the flow equations numerically in two dimensions and compute the asymptotic behavior analytically in two and three dimensions. The fermionic gap Δis reduced significantly compared to the mean-field gap, and the bosonic order parameter α, which is equivalent to Δin mean-field theory, is suppressed to values below Δby fluctuations. The fermion-boson vertex is only slightly renormalized. In the infrared regime, transverse order parameter fluctuations associated with the Goldstone mode lead to a strong renormalization of longitudinal fluctuations: the longitudinal mass and the bosonic self-interaction vanish linearly as a function of the scale in two dimensions, and logarithmically in three dimensions, in agreement with the exact behavior of an interacting Bose gas.
dc.description14 pages, 12 Figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3994
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3994
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.B78:014522,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.014522
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/225546
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleRenormalization group flow for fermionic superfluids at zero temperature
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