Roscher, Dietrich (2015)
Phase Structure of Strongly Correlated Fermi Gases.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Phase Structure of Strongly Correlated Fermi Gases | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Braun, Prof. Dr. Jens ; Hammer, Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner | ||||
Date: | 14 July 2015 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 19 October 2015 | ||||
Abstract: | Strongly correlated fermionic many-body systems are ubiquitous in nature. Their theoretical description poses challenging problems which are further complicated when imbalances in, e.g., the particle numbers of the involved species or their masses are introduced. In this thesis, a number of different approaches is developed and applied in order to obtain predictions for physical observables of such systems that mutually support and confirm each other. In a first step, analytically well-founded mean-field analyses are carried through. One- and three-dimensional ultracold Fermi gases with spin and mass imbalance as well as Gross-Neveu and NJL-type relativistic models at finite baryon chemical potential are investigated with respect to their analytic properties in general and the occurrence of spontaneous breaking of translational invariance in particular. Based on these studies, further methods are devised or adapted allowing for investigations also beyond the mean-field approximation. Lattice Monte Carlo simulations with imaginary imbalance parameters are employed to surmount the infamous sign problem and compute the equation of state of the respective unitary Fermi gases. Moreover, in-medium two-body analyses are used to confirm and explain the characteristics of inhomogeneously ordered phases. Finally, functional RG methods are applied to the unitary Fermi gas with spin and mass imbalance. Besides quantitatively competitive predictions for critical temperatures for the superfluid state, strong hints on the stability of inhomogeneous phases with respect to order parameter fluctuations in the regime of large mass imbalance are obtained. Combining the findings from these different theoretical studies suggests the possibility to find such phases in experiments presently in preparation. |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ultracold Fermi Gas, Superfluid, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, FFLO Phase, Monte Carlo, Functional Renormalization Group | ||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-50229 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute for condensed matter physics (2021 merged in Institute for Condensed Matter Physics) > Vielteilchentheorie 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics |
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Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2015 13:36 | ||||
Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2015 13:36 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/5022 | ||||
PPN: | 386810966 | ||||
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