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Title: | Effective Field Theories for Metallic Quantum Critical Points |
Authors: | Sur, Shouvik |
Advisor: | Lee, Sung-Sik |
Department: | Physics and Astronomy |
Keywords: | Quantum Phase Transition;Metals;Non-Fermi Liquid;Renormalization Group |
Publication Date: | Nov-2015 |
Abstract: | In this thesis we study the scaling properties of unconventional metals that arise at quantum critical points using low-energy effective field theories. Due to high rate of scatterings between electrons and critical fluctuations of the order parameter associated with spontaneous symmetry breaking, Landau’s Fermi liquid theory breaks down at the critical points. The theories that describe these critical points generally flow into strong coupling regimes at low energy in two space dimensions. Here we develop and utilize renormalization group methods that are suitable for the interacting non-Fermi liquids. We focus on the critical points arising at excitonic, and commensurate spin and charge density wave transitions. By controlled analyses we find stable non-Fermi liquid and marginal Fermi liquid states, and extract the scaling behaviour. The field theories for the non-Fermi liquids are characterized by symmetry groups, local curvature of the Fermi surface, the dispersion of the order parameter fluctuations, and dimensions of space and Fermi surface. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18412 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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