Exploring Electron-electron and Electron-phonon Interactions in Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems

Exploring Electron-electron and Electron-phonon Interactions in Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems
Author: Bo Xiao
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
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Electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions play fundamental roles in condensed matter physics. Strong correlations among electrons and between electrons and phonons lead to beautiful emergent phenomena both in materials and in the models used to describe them. Unfortunately, the complexity induced from the combination of interactions and large numbers of degrees of freedom makes analytically solving these models very difficult, even when greatly simplified. As a consequence, many important questions in many-body physics remain open. For example, the discoveries of charge density wave (CDW) in the pseudogap phase of the unconventional high-temperature cuprate superconductors motivate on-going research on electron-phonon interactions and its effects on the off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO). In conventional superconductors, the attractive interaction between electrons which is mediated by the electron-phonon interaction is essential for the formation of Cooper pairs. However, if the electron-phonon interaction is sufficiently strong, charge order emerges near commensurate filling to compete with superconductivity. In this thesis, we use a combination of numerical and analytical methods to understand this sort of interplay between different types of order in the microscopic and macroscopic behavior of many-body systems. In Chapter 1, we introduce the Hubbard and Holstein Hamiltonians and the some of the exotic phases and phase transitions which they describe. We also build up some of the connections between numerical solutions of these models and experimental results for superconducting, charge, and spin order. In Chapter 2 and 3, we set up the frameworks of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms and machine learning (ML) methods. We show how to translate a quantum-mechanical problem into an algorithm with analytical analysis encoded in it, which can be widely applied to various models and physics. In Chapter 4 and 5, we quantitatively determine the phase diagrams of one dimensional electron-phonon models where electrons have a long-range coupling to phonons as well as repulsive electron-electron interactions. We analyze the resulting metallic, Mott insulator, Peierls insulator phases, as well as the phase separation which we show often arises from momentum-dependent electron-phonon coupling. Although much work has been done on the extended Hubbard model, our research on including electron-phonon interactions pushes the field in a new direction. In Chapter 6, we describe the first study of the interplay between electron-phonon interaction and the effects of randomness. Our central result is a somewhat unexpected one: the suppression of the charge density wave correlations in the half-filled Holstein model by disorder can stabilize a superconducting phase. In Chapter 7, we use QMC and cutting-edge ML methods to identify phase transitions involving 'off-diagonal' order parameters using 'diagonal' order parameter descriptors. Our study has implications for the exploration of strong correlations using quantum gas microscopy (QGM). Chapter 8 summarizes some of the key results of this thesis, and points areas of investigation which would be important to pursue further. The material presented in Chapters 3, 4 and 5 of this dissertation is based on two published articles in Physical Review B, references [1, 2], and one manuscript which has been submitted and is under review at Physical Review Letters, reference [3]. Chapter 7 is based on reference [4], which is in preparation.

Electron-phonon Interactions in Low-dimensional Structures

Electron-phonon Interactions in Low-dimensional Structures
Author: Lawrence John Challis
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Total Pages: 302
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780198507321

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The study of electrons and holes confined to two, one and even zero dimensions has uncovered a rich variety of new physics and applications. This book describes the interaction between these confined carriers and the optic and acoustic phonons within and around the confined regions. Phonons provide the principal channel of energy transfer between the carriers and their surroundings and also the main restriction to their room temperature mobility. But they have many other roles; they provide, for example, an essential feature of the operation of the quantum cascade laser. Since their momenta at relevant energies are well matched to those of electrons, they can also be used to probe electronic properties such as the confinement width of 2D electron gases and the dispersion curve of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect. The book describes both the physics of the electron-phonon interaction in the different confined systems and the experimental and theoretical techniques that have been used in its investigation. The experimental methods include optical and transport techniques as well as techniques in which phonons are used as the experimental probe. The aim of the book is to provide an up to date review of the physics and its significance in device performance. It is also written to be explanatory and accessible to graduate students and others new to the field.

Real-Time Quantum Dynamics of Electron–Phonon Systems

Real-Time Quantum Dynamics of Electron–Phonon Systems
Author: Valerio Rizzi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319962809

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This book develops a methodology for the real-time coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and phonons in nanostructures, both isolated structures and those open to an environment. It then applies this technique to both fundamental and practical problems that are relevant, in particular, to nanodevice physics, laser–matter interaction, and radiation damage in living tissue. The interaction between electrons and atomic vibrations (phonons) is an example of how a process at the heart of quantum dynamics can impact our everyday lives. This is e.g. how electrical current generates heat, making your toaster work. It is also a key process behind many crucial problems down to the atomic and molecular scale, such as the functionality of nanoscale electronic devices, the relaxation of photo-excited systems, the energetics of systems under irradiation, and thermoelectric effects. Electron–phonon interactions represent a difficult many-body problem. Fairly standard techniques are available for tackling cases in which one of the two subsystems can be treated as a steady-state bath for the other, but determining the simultaneous coupled dynamics of the two poses a real challenge. This book tackles precisely this problem.

Electron-Phonon Interactions and Phase Transitions

Electron-Phonon Interactions and Phase Transitions
Author: T. Riste
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461589215

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This NATO Advanced Study Institute was the fourth in a series devoted to the subject of phase transitions and instabilities with particular attention to structural phase transforma~ions. Beginning wi th the first Geilo institute in 19'(1 we have seen the emphasis evolve from the simple quasiharmonic soft mode description within the Landau theory, through the unexpected spectral structure re presented by the "central peak" (1973), to such subjects as melting, turbulence and hydrodynamic instabilities (1975). Sophisticated theoretical techniques such as scaling laws and renormalization group theory developed over the same period have brought to this wide range of subjects a pleasing unity. These institutes have been instrumental in placing structural transformations clearly in the mainstream of statistical physics and critical phenomena. The present Geilo institute retains some of the counter cul tural flavour of the first one by insisting whenever possible upon peeking under the skirts of even the most successful phenomenology to catch a glimpse of the underlying microscopic processes. Of course the soft mode remains a useful concept, but the major em phasis of this institute is the microscopic cause of the mode softening. The discussions given here illustrate that for certain important classes of solids the cause lies in the electron phonon interaction. Three major types of structural transitions are considered. In the case of metals and semimetals, the electron phonon interaction relie6 heavily on the topology of the Fermi surface.

Phenomena of Interacting Quantum Many-body Systems

Phenomena of Interacting Quantum Many-body Systems
Author: Chao Wang (Researcher of quantum many-body physics)
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Release: 2021
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Strongly correlated electron systems are one of the central topics of condensed matter physics. The myriad of combinations of diverse Fermiologies, phonon spectra and electron-electron, electron-phonon interactions, together with spin-orbit couplings, Kondo couplings, and effects of disorder and external magnetic fields, leads to a truly dazzling range of quantum many-body phenomena. Superconductivity (conventional and unconventional) and magnetism are among the most prominent examples of quantum phases of matter that occur in such systems. We know that powerful emergent principles such as symmetry and topology are required to explain these emergent phenomena. However, due to the inherent difficulty of studying systems with macroscopically large number of strongly interacting particles, there remains the challenge of connecting these somewhat abstract mathematical principles with the underlying microscopic interactions. In this thesis, we illustrate, through two examples of systems with electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions, how one can simplify intractable quantum chemistry problems by reducing them to effective model Hamiltonians that capture the essence of microscopic interactions important to low-energy excitations, which we can then study using a variety of tools, such as determinantal quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC), exact diagonalization, weak and strong coupling considerations and mean-field theory. In the first example we encounter a novel deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) with emergent O(4) symmetry. In the second example we offer a phenomenological explanation of superconducting and insulating phases of twisted bilayer graphene. Lastly, we also visit the more field-theoretic problem of boson-fermion duality in two spatial dimensions, for which we provide an exact lattice construction. This duality is closely related to the half-filled Landau level problem in quantum Hall physics.

Electron Phonon Interactions: A Novel Semiclassified Approach

Electron Phonon Interactions: A Novel Semiclassified Approach
Author: Albert Rose
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1989-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814525014

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This monograph is a radical departure from the conventional quantum mechanical approach to electron-phonon interactions. It translates the customary quantum mechanical analysis of the electron-phonon interactions carried out in Fourier space into a predominantly classical analysis carried out in real space. Various electron-phonon interactions such as the polar and nonpolar optical phonons, acoustic phonons that interact via deformation potential and via the piezoelectric effect and phonons in metals, are treated in this monograph by a single, relatively simple “classical” model. This model is shown to apply to electron interactions with the deep lying X-ray levels of atoms, with plasmons and with Cerenkov radiation. The unifying concept that applies to all of these phenomena is a new definition of a coupling constant. The essentially classical interaction of an electron with its surrounding is clearly brought out to be the cause of spontaneous emission of phonons. The same concept also applies to the case of spontaneous emission of photons. While the bulk of this monograph deals with quanta of phonons and quanta of photons, a discussion of the acousto electric effect which is a purely classical phenomenon is presented. The newly defined coupling constant turns out to be valid too for this discussion. This universality of the coupling constant goes far beyond. It is equally applicable to amorphous materials. This significant application gives an analytic formulation of mobility in amorphous materials.

Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism

Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism
Author: Assa Auerbach
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1998-09-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780387942865

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In the excitement and rapid pace of developments, writing pedagogical texts has low priority for most researchers. However, in transforming my lecture l notes into this book, I found a personal benefit: the organization of what I understand in a (hopefully simple) logical sequence. Very little in this text is my original contribution. Most of the knowledge was collected from the research literature. Some was acquired by conversations with colleagues; a kind of physics oral tradition passed between disciples of a similar faith. For many years, diagramatic perturbation theory has been the major theoretical tool for treating interactions in metals, semiconductors, itiner ant magnets, and superconductors. It is in essence a weak coupling expan sion about free quasiparticles. Many experimental discoveries during the last decade, including heavy fermions, fractional quantum Hall effect, high temperature superconductivity, and quantum spin chains, are not readily accessible from the weak coupling point of view. Therefore, recent years have seen vigorous development of alternative, nonperturbative tools for handling strong electron-electron interactions. I concentrate on two basic paradigms of strongly interacting (or con strained) quantum systems: the Hubbard model and the Heisenberg model. These models are vehicles for fundamental concepts, such as effective Ha miltonians, variational ground states, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and quantum disorder. In addition, they are used as test grounds for various nonperturbative approximation schemes that have found applications in diverse areas of theoretical physics.

Lectures on the Physics of Highly Correlated Electron Systems VII

Lectures on the Physics of Highly Correlated Electron Systems VII
Author: Adolpho Avella
Publisher: American Inst. of Physics
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780735401471

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The objective of the meeting was to promote the formation of young scientists by means of training through research. These features are reflected in the book: the pedagogical lectures are up-to-date monographs of relevant subjects in the field of condensed matter physics. Contributions include: polarons (the polaron concept, optical properties and internal structure of polarons, many-polaron systems, magnetoabsorption of polarons, optical properties of quantum dots: role of the polaron interaction, interacting polarons in a quantum dot, small polarons); multielectron bubbles in liquid helium: a spherical two-dimensional electron system (oscillation modes, bubble stability and fissioning, the spherical two-dimensional electron gas, the Wigner solid of electrons in the bubble); the numerical approach to the correlated electron problem: quantum Monte Carlo methods (the world line approach for the XXZ model and relation to the 6-vertex model, auxiliary field Quantum Monte Carlo algorithms, application of the auxiliary field QMC to specific Hamiltonians, the Hirsch-Fye impurity algorithm); basic models in the quantum theory of magnetism (the Heisenberg model, the Hubbard model, and the sd-model).

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION AND ITS EFFECTS IN HEAVY FERMION SYSTEMS

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION AND ITS EFFECTS IN HEAVY FERMION SYSTEMS
Author: Dr. Jitendra Sahoo
Publisher: Newredmars Education Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2022-06-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9393620075

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The story of heavy fermions (HF) begun with the discovery of the low temperature behaviour of CeAl3 by Andres et al. in the year 1975 took the momentum after the discovery of superconductivity in CeCu2Si2 by Steglich et al. in the year 1979 . Though HF behaviour is common in the rare-earth elements like Ce, Yb and actinides like U, it is also found to exist in some of the praseodymium (Pr), samarium (Sm) , plutonium (Pu) and more recently in neptunium (Np) systems. These compounds are characterized by the presence of partially filled f-electron bands. At high temperatures, these magnetic moments manifest themselves as a weakly interacting set of local moments of the f electrons with Curie-Weiss susceptibility that coexists with light s or d conduction electrons. But at low temperature, these f-electrons hybridize with conduction electrons near Fermi level via Kondo spin fluctuation which happens through constant exchange spin-flip transition of f-electrons and band electrons in the vicinity of Fermi level. This process leads to a strong mixing of Fermi electrons with the localized f-electrons which is manifested in a renormalization of the Fermi surface and a drastic enhancement of the effective mass of the electrons at Fermi level. Further, in HF systems, electron-phonon interaction (EPI) contributes a lot in manifestation of some of the anomalous behaviour relating to elastic constant, ultrasonic attenuation & sound velocity, anisotropic Fermi surface, Kondo volume collapse etc. In this PhD thesis book in title “Electron phonon interaction and its effect in heavy fermion (HF) systems” the author tries to put some light into the behavoiour of Electron-phonon interaction in describing some of the properties of HF systems at low temperatures. In this 1 st edition, the book has been presented in multicolour edition with profuse colour illustrations so as to increase its clarity, understand ability and legibility, especially of the figures depicted to explain the low temperature behaviour of HF systems. It is hoped that the present book will serve its purpose in attracting young researchers to the field of HF systems. It is my foremost duty to express my deep sense of gratitute to my supervisor Dr. Pratibindhya Nayak , Professor Emeritus, School of Physics, Sambalpur University, Odisha, for his able guidance at every stage of this work.. His innovative methods and inspirational guidance have largely contributed to the conceptualization of the form and content of this book. I am indebted to my family members for their constant support. I am sincerely thankful to the publisher, Newredmars Education to bring my works into light in form of a book Healthy criticism and suggestions for further improvement of the book are solicited.