Weakly interacting electrons and the renormalization group

DOI10.1002/ANDP.200310033zbMATH Open1037.81102arXivcond-mat/0309645OpenAlexW3103168252MaRDI QIDQ4452479FDOQ4452479

Benedikt Binz, B. Douçot, D. Baeriswyl

Publication date: 12 February 2004

Published in: Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a general method to study weak-coupling instabilities of a large class of interacting electron models in a controlled and unbiased way. Quite generally, the electron gas is unstable towards a superconducting state even in the absence of phonons, since high-energy spin fluctuations create an effective attraction between the quasi-particles. As an example, we show the occurrence of d-wave pairing in the repulsive Hubbard model in two dimensions. In one dimension or if the Fermi surface is nested, there are several competing instabilities. The required renormalization group formalism for this case is presented to lowest (one-loop) order on a most elementary level, connecting the idea of the ``parquet summation to the more modern concept of Wilson's effective action. The validity and restrictions of the one-loop approximation are discussed in detail. As a result, three different renormalization group approaches known in the literature are shown to be equivalent within the regime of applicability. We also briefly discuss the open problem of a two-dimensional Fermi system at Van Hove filling without nesting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309645

zbMATH Keywords

superconductivityHubbard modelCorrelated electronshigh-energy spin fluctuationsparquet summationweak-coupling instabilitiesWilson's effective action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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