Weakly interacting electrons and the renormalization group

DOI10.1002/ANDP.200310033MaRDI QIDQ4452479zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benedikt Binz, D. Baeriswyl, B. Douçot

Publication date 12 February 2004

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

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)

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.

Recommendations

• Renormalization group analysis of a two-dimensional interacting electron system
• Functional renormalization group for interacting Fermi systems
• Spin and superconducting instabilities near a Van Hove singularity
• RENORMALISATION GROUP ANALYSIS OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL HUBBARD MODEL: SPIN CORRELATIONS AND D-WAVE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
• Introduction to the renormalization group with applications to non-relativistic quantum electron gases

Cited in

(6)

• Renormalization group analysis of a two-dimensional interacting electron system
• Functional renormalization group for interacting Fermi systems
• Strong-coupling phases of 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals. A renormalization group approach
• Resonating Valence Bond Theory
• Renormalization group approach to a \(p\)-wave superconducting model
• Spin and superconducting instabilities near a Van Hove singularity

This page was built for publication: Weakly interacting electrons and the renormalization group

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4452479)