Author: Mgr. Břetislav Šopík Thesis advisor: doc. Pavel Lipavský, CSc. Ph.D. thesis Superconductivity in disordered systems Abstract We study some aspects of the superconductivity in disordered systems - namely the superconductivity in a boron-doped diamond. We also apply theoretical methods originally developed in the field of the disordered systems to the theory of superconductivity. In the case of the boron-doped diamond we focus on the question of the dependence of the critical temperature Tc on boron doping. We discuss the impact of the boron distribution correlations on the Tc as well. First, we evaluate the density of states at the Fermi energy N0 within the dynamical cluster approximation. We discuss the Tc as a function of N0 within the BCS, the McMillan and the Belitz theory. In the case of 100 samples, the simplified Belitz theory gives the best agreement with experimental data. For 111 samples the McMillan theory is sufficient. We also show that the difference of 100 and 111 samples in the N0 dependence of Tc can be explained as given by attractive correlations in the boron distribution. Applying the concept of the coherent potential approximation, we re- move a self-interaction from the Galitskii-Feynman T-matrix approxima- tion. This correction has no effect in the normal state but makes the...

This work provides a full description of the critical behavior of the XX spin-1/2 chain under correlated quenched disorder. Previous investigations have shown that the introduction of correlation between couplings in the random XX model gives rise to a novel critical behavior, where the infinite-randomness critical point of the uncorrelated case is replaced by a family of finite-disorder critical points that depends on the disorder strength. Here it is shown that most of the critical exponents of the XX model with correlated randomness are equal to clean (without disorder) chain values and do not depend on disorder strength, except the critical dynamical exponent and the anomalous dimension. The former increases monotonically with disorder strength, whereas the results obtained for the latter are unreliable. Furthermore, the scaling relations between the critical exponents were also tested and it was found that those involving the system dimensionality, namely the hyperscaling and Fisher´s scaling relations, are not respected. Measurements of the Rényi entanglement entropy of the system at criticality have also been performed, and it is shown that the scaling behavior of the correlated-disorder case is similar to the theoretical prediction for the clean chain, displaying the same finite-size correction and a disorder-dependent effective central charge in the leading term of the scaling. Further corrections to the scaling of the entanglement entropy were also investigated, but the results are inconclusive. The model was studied via exact numerical diagonalization of the corresponding Hamiltonian. / Este trabalho proporciona uma descrição completa do comportamento crítico da cadeia XX de spin-1/2 sob desordem correlacionada e independente do tempo. Investigações prévias mostraram que a introdução de correlação entre os acoplamentos da cadeia XX desordenada ocasiona o aparecimento de um novo comportamento crítico, onde o ponto crítico de desordem infinita da cadeia não-correlacionada é substituído por uma família de pontos críticos com desordem finita que depende da intensidade da desordem. Mostra-se aqui que a maioria dos expoentes críticos da cadeia XX com desordem correlacionada são iguais aos valores da cadeia limpa (sem desordem) e não dependem da intensidade da desordem, com exceção do expoente dinâmico crítico e da dimensão anômala. O primeiro cresce monotonicamente com a intensidade da desordem, enquanto que para o segundo os resultados obtidos não são confiáveis. Além disso, as relações de escala entre os expoentes críticos também foram testadas, e encontrou-se que aquelas envolvendo a dimensionalidade do sistema, isto é as relações de hiperescala e de Fisher, não são respeitadas. Medidas da entropia de emaranhamento de Rényi do sistema na criticalidade também foram efetuadas, e mostra-se que o comportamento de escala do caso com desordem correlacionada é semelhante à previsão teórica para a cadeia limpa, exibindo a mesma correção de tamanho finito e uma carga central dependente da desordem no termo principal da função de escala. Correções adicionais à função de escala da entropia de emaranhamento também foram investigadas, mas os resultados são inconclusivos. O modelo foi estudado pela diagonalização numérica exata do Hamiltoniano correspondente.

Orientador: Eduardo Miranda / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin. / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T03:42:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Miranda_DanielCesarBoscode_M.pdf: 4501306 bytes, checksum: ea9cd3602fb6488ef97069a6df6ae49c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar os efeitos da desordem nas proximidades da transição metal-isolante de Mott. Para tanto, utilizamos o modelo de Hubbard desordenado em duas dimensões. A teoria que aplicamos para estudar esse modelo é a Teoria Estatística Dinâmica de Campo Médio, que trata de maneira não-trivial os efeitos de desordem e interação elétron-elétron. A aproximação básica da teoria consiste em descrever os efeitos de interação de maneira local. Nela mapeamos o nosso problema original em vários problemas de uma impureza de Anderson, embebidos em banhos que são determinados através de uma condição de autoconsistência. Esses problemas são resolvidos no nosso trabalho aplicando o método do Monte Carlo Quântico, algoritmo Hirsch-Fye, que faz cálculos em temperatura finita. No nosso estudo conseguimos observar a coexistência de soluções metálicas ruins e isolantes ruins num mesmo sistema, para temperaturas um pouco maiores do que a que determina o ponto crítico da transição de Mott. Relacionamos a condutividade local com as energias locais desordenadas, observando que essas energias funcionam como um potencial químico dependente do sítio que altera localmente a dopagem do sistema. Finalmente, verificamos o aumento do valor da interação crítica com a desordem. Esse trabalho é a primeira implementação numérica da Teoria Estatística Dinâmica de Campo Médio com Monte Carlo Quântico, que é o estado da arte de cálculos de sistemas de uma impureza única. Nesse sentido, nosso trabalho representa um importante primeiro passo na implementação do método e fornece um paradigma inicial do seu poder e das suas limitações. / Abstract: The main goal of this work is to study the effects of disorder in the proximity of a Mott metal-insulator transition. For that, we use the disordered Hubbard model in two dimensions. The theory we aply to study this model is the Statistical Dynamical Mean Field Theory, which treats the effects of disorder and electron-electron interactions in a non-trivial fashion. The basic aproximation of that theory is to describe the effects of interactions in a local way. In this theory we map the original system in several Anderson single-impurity problems, embebbed in baths that are determined through a self-consistency condition. These problems are solved in our work through the Quantum Monte Carlo method, with the Hirsch-Fye algorithm, at finite temperature. In our study, we found the coexistence of bubbles of bad metal and bad insulator in the same system, for temperatures a little higher than that which determines the critical point of the Mott transition. We could relate the local conducting properties with the local disordered energies, finding that these energies work like a site-dependent chemical potential which changes locally the doping of the system. Finally, we verified the enhancement of the critical interaction by disorder. This work is the first numerical implementation of the Statistical Dynamical Mean Field Theory with the Quantum Monte Carlo, which is the state of art for calculations of single-impurity systems. In this sense, our work is an important first step in the implementation of the method and sets a preliminary benchmark of its power and limitations. / Mestrado / Física da Matéria Condensada / Mestre em Física

Orientador: Eduardo Miranda / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T07:53:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SuarezVillagran_MarthaYolima_M.pdf: 2373759 bytes, checksum: 6ea9dc2028d28176c8fe83514187958a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Determinamos o diagrama de fases do modelo de Hubbard desordenado como função da temperatura e interação por meio da Teoria Estatística Dinâmica de Campo Médio. As linhas espinoidais para o metal e isolante foram traçadas para desordem fraca e moderada, usando Monte Carlo Quântico para resolver o problema de uma impureza. Encontramos que a desordem desloca as linhas espinoidais para valores maiores de interação e temperaturas menores. Nosso estudo mostra que a região de coexistência do isolante e do metal sobrevive à introdução de desordem e preserva a transição de Mott, pelo menos para valores suficientemente pequenos de desordem. / Abstract: We determine the phase diagram of the disordered Hubbard Model as a function of temperature and interaction strength by means of the Statistical Dynamical Mean Field Theory. The metallic and insulating spinodal lines are traced for weak and moderate disorder using Quantum Monte Carlo as the impurity solver. We find that disorder pushes the spinodal lines to larger interactions and smaller temperatures. Our studies show that the coexistence region of insulator and metal survives the introduction of disorder and is a robust feature of the Mott transition, at least for sufficiently small disorder strength. / Mestrado / Física da Matéria Condensada / Mestra em Física

In this thesis Moore and Yeo's proposed mapping of the structural glass to the Ising spin glass in a random field is presented. In contrast to Random First Order Theory and Mode Coupling Theory, this mapping predicts that there should be no glass transition at finite temperature. However, a growing correlation length is predicted from the size of rearranging regions in the supercooled liquid, and from this a growing structural relaxation time is predicted. Also presented is a study of the propensity of binary fluids (i.e. fluids containing particles of two sizes) to phase separate into regions dominated by one type of particle only. Binary fluids like this are commonly used as model glass formers and the study shows that this phase separation behaviour is something that must be taken into account.The mapping relies on the use of replica theory and is therefore very opaque. Here a model is presented that may be mapped directly to a system of spins, and also prevents the process of phase separation from occurring in binary fluids. The system of spins produced in the mapping is then analysed through the use of an effective Hamiltonian, which is in the universality class of the Ising spin glass in a random field. The behaviour of the correlation length depends on the spin-spin coupling J and the strength of the random field h. The variation of these with packing fraction and temperature T is studied for a simple model, and the results extended to the full system. Finally a prediction is made for the critical exponents governing the correlation length and structural relaxation time.

Au sein de physique des systèmes quantiques désordonnés, le domaine des atomes ultra-froids est en pleine croissance. En l’occurrence, l'étude de la relation entre la localisation et les interactions a permis de découvrir la richesse de la physique de la localisation à N-corps. Ce phénomène remarquable fournit un mécanisme pour la brisure de l'ergodicité dans les systèmes quantiques isolés et désordonnés. Plusieurs questions ont été évoquées après cette découverte, comme la possibilité d'une transition fluide-isolant à température finie. Dans cette thèse, j'étudie la localisation à N-corps dans le contexte de bosons désordonnés à deux dimensions. Dans la première partie, je présente l'étude d'un gaz interactif de Bose bidimensionnel dans un potentiel aléatoire à température finie. Le système présente deux transitions à température finie: la transition de localisation à N-corps entre fluide et isolant, et la transition de Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless entre superfluide algébrique et fluide. J'examine ensuite l'influence de la troncature de la distribution d'énergie dû au piégeage, un phénomène générique dans le cadre du refroidissement d'atomes ultra-froids. Finalement, je conclus en discutant la stabilité de la phase isolante dans des systèmes définis sur un continuum. / The study of the interplay between localization and interactions in disordered quantum systems led to the discovery of the interesting physics of many-body localization (MBL). This remarkable phenomenon provides a generic mechanism for the breaking of ergodicity in quantum isolated systems, and has stimulated several questions such as the possibility of a finite-temperature fluid-insulator transition. At the same time, the domain of ultracold interacting atoms is a rapidly growing field in the physics of disordered quantum systems. In this thesis, we study many-body localization in the context of two-dimensional disordered ultracold bosons. After reviewing some importance concepts, we present a study of the phase diagram of a two-dimensional weakly interacting Bose gas in a random potential at finite temperatures. The system undergoes two finite-temperature transitions: the MBL transition from normal fluid to insulator and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition from algebraic superfluid to normal fluid. At T=0, we show the existence of a tricritical point where the three phases coexist. We also discuss the influence of the truncation of the energy distribution function at the trap barrier, a generic phenomenon for ultracold atoms. The truncation limits the growth of the localization length with energy and, in contrast to the thermodynamic limit, the insulator phase is present at any temperature. Finally, we conclude by discussing the stability of the insulating phase with respect to highly energetic particles in systems defined on a continuum.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第17837号 / 人博第658号 / 新制||人||158(附属図書館) / 25||人博||658(吉田南総合図書館) / 30652 / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生人間学専攻 / (主査)教授 上木 直昌, 教授 森本 芳則, 教授 髙﨑 金久 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DFAM

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第20895号 / 理博第4347号 / 新制||理||1624(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)教授 佐々 真一, 教授 川上 則雄, 教授 早川 尚男 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Dans cette thèse nous avons étudié de nombreux aspects de la théorie des systèmes désordonnés. En particulier, nous avons étudié les systèmes vitreux. La description détaillée des systèmes désordonnés et vitreux est un problème ouvert en physique de la matière condensée. Dans le cadre de la théorie de champ moyen pour les verres structuraux nous avons étudié la théorie des fluctuations proche de la transition vitreuse dynamique. L’étude des fluctuations peut etre fait avec le formalisme statique de la théorie de répliques. Nous avons fait cela en introduisant une théorie des champs pour la transition vitreuse à partir du potentiel microscopique entre les particules. Nous avons étudié dans ce cadre les fluctuations au niveau gaussien et nous avons évalués les exposants critiques dans ces approximations. Nous avons aussi étudié la région de validité de la prédiction gaussienne avec l’introduction d’un critère de Ginzburg pour la transition vitreuse. Les résultats que nous avons obtenues ne sont valides que dans la région β. Pour obtenir des resultats dans la région α nous avons étudié la pseudodynamique de Boltzmann que a été introduit par Franz and Parisi. Nous sommes parti des équations de Ornstein-Zernike et nous avons obtenu un ensemble d’équations dynamiques. En utilisant l’approximation Hypernetted Chain nous avons obtenu un ensemble complet d’équations qui sont très similaires aux équations de la théorie de mode-coupling. La troisième partie de la thèse porte sur l’étude des états amorphes des sphères dures en hautes dimensions. Pour obtenir les exposants dynamique dans ce cas, nous avons étudié la stabilité du diagramme de phase 1RSB (one-step-replica-symmetry-breaking). Nous avons découvert que ce diagramme de phase possède une région où la solution 1RSB est instable. La région où la solution 1RSB est instable est connectée avec la description théorique de la physique de jamming des sphères dures et nous avons montré que l’instabilité 1RSB est responsable d’une transition de phase en haute densité. Cette transition s’appelle la transition de Gardner. Nous avons cherché une solution 2RSB et nous avons vu qu’il existait un point en densité après lequel on peut avoir une solution 2RSB (et aussi fullRSB). Nous avons étudié le diagramme de phase 2RSB dans la limite de jamming où la pression devient infini. Après la solution 2RSB nous avons cherché à décrire la solution fullRSB. Nous avons écrit les équations fullRSB et nous avons découvert qu’elles sont identiques aux equations que l’on a dans le cas de un modèle de verres de spins qui s’appelle modèle de Sherrington et Kirkpatrick. Nous avons aussi étudié la solution numerique des équations fullRSB dans la limite de jamming. Cette solution montre beaucoup des choses intéressantes. La plus importante est le comportement du mean square displacement dans la limite de jamming. Si l’on regard les résultats numériques et éxperimentaux, il semble que le plateau de le mean square displacement s’approche a zero comme la pression à un exposant proche de −3/2. Nous avons vu que la solution numérique des équations fullRSB est en mesure de reproduire ce comportement. La quatrième partie de la thése a porté sur la dynamique de mode-coupling dans le régime où la transition vitreuse devient continue. / In this thesis we have studied many aspects of the physics of disordered and glassy systems. The first part of the work is about the theory of dynamical fluctuations in the beta regime. When a system undergoes a dynamical arrest, it can be studied by introducing an appropriate dynamical correlation function that plays the role of the order parameter of the transition. To understand the collective effects underlying the glass transition we have studied the fluctuations of the order parameter on a time scale where the system is relaxed in a typical metastable glassy state. To do this we have seen that coming from the glass phase the system develops critical fluctuations with a diverging correlation length at the mean field level. We have thus derived an effective field theory by focusing only on them. This field theory can be used firstly to derive the mode-coupling exponent parameter that controls the relaxation of the dynamical correlation function when the system relaxes in a metastable glassy state. Moreover we can give a Ginzburg Criterion that can be used to determine the region of validity of the Gaussian approximation. These considerations are valid in the beta regime. To clarify what happens in the alpha regime we have studied a quasi-equilibrium construction, called Boltzmann-Pseudodynamics, recently introduced in order to describe with static techniques the long time regime of glassy dynamics. We have extended this formalism to structural glasses by producing a new set of dynamical equations. We have done this in the simplest approximation scheme that is called Hypernetted Chain. Two results have been obtained : firstly, we have computed the mode-coupling exponent parameter and we have shown that it coincides with the one obtained with the formalism of the first part of the thesis ; secondly we have studied the aging regime and we have derived that the condition that determines the fluctuation-dissipation ratio is a marginal stability one. In the third part of the thesis we have studied the theory of amorphous states of hard spheres in high dimensions. Hard spheres provide simple models of glasses and they are extensively studied for the jamming transition. In our framework jammed states can be thought as infinite pressure limit of metastable glassy states. During the last years it has been derived a mean field theory of hard spheres based on the 1RSB assumption on the structure of the free energy landscape. However it has been realized that this construction is inconsistent for what concerns the property of the packings at jamming. In the present work we have firstly investigated the possibility of an instability of the 1RSB solution and we have actually found that the 1RSB solution is unstable in the jamming part of the phase diagram. At the same time we have been able to compute the mode-coupling exponent parameter for this system. In order to go beyond the 1RSB solution we have first tried a 2RSB ansatz and then a fullRSB solution. We have derived a set of variational equations that are very close to the ones that have been derived in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. We have solved numerically the equations and we have shown that the fullRSB solution seems to predict that the plateau value of the mean square displacement scale as the pressure to a power close to 3/2 as it seems to be predicted by scaling arguments and in contrast with the 1RSB predictions that show a scaling with the inverse of the pressure. The last chapter of the thesis is on the mode-coupling theory when the glass transition is becoming continuous. We have been able to show that in such a situation a detailed characterization of the solution of the equations can be obtained in the long time regime.

Apresentamos neste trabalho uma série de estudos sobre os efeitos de perturbações geométricas em alguns modelos da física estatística com transições de fase contínuas, Essas perturbações são causadas por distribuições aleatórias ou aperiódicas (e determinísticas) de campos ou de acoplamentos microscópicos ao longo das redes em que os modelos são definidos. No caso de sistemas aperiódicos sem desordem, mostramos uma grande quantidade de exemplos das possíveis alterações induzidas no comportamento crítico de modelos de Ising, Potts e um modelo para polímeros em interação. Empregamos técnicas não-perturbativas de grupo de renormalização no espaço real (matrizes de transferência para estudar a termodinâmica desses sistemas na região crítica ou tricrítica. Concluímos que, ainda que distribuições aperiódicas de constantes de acoplamento muitas vezes alterem sensivelmente os expoentes críticos associados às transições de fases, classificações universais ainda são possíveis. As classes de universalidade ligadas aos diferentes modelos e às várias maneiras de perturbá-los aperiodicamente estão associadas n inesperadas estruturas atratoras que surgem no espaço hamiltoniano de parâmetros, descritas em detalhe. No caso de modelos em presença de perturbações aleatórias à simetria translacional, argumentamos que alguns tipos de classificações universais também devem ser possíveis, primeiramente por causa de urna certa analogia com os sistemas aperiódicos anteriores, e também porque eles parecem sempre estar associados a formas de dinâmica complexa (corno a que se observa em sistemas vítreos não-desordenados). Comentamos brevemente sobre esta última conexão, e apresentamos urna análise ele um modelo desordenado muito simples, que tem a termodinâmica inteiramente calculável, e pode esconder alguma assinatura dessa dinâmica complexa. Finalmente. discutimos os rudimentos da chamada técnica de Martin-Siggia-Rose (MSR), que pode ser empregada para estudos avançados de sistemas com evoluções do tipo Langevin, e que permitiu o início da compreensão, já há algumas décadas, da possível universalidade da dinâmica complexa de sistemas desordenados. / We present in this work a series of studies on the effects of geometrical perturbations on statistical-physics models with continuous phase transitions. These perturbations are generated by random or aperiodic (deterministic) distributions of fields or microscopic couplings, along the lattices on which the models are defined. In case of non-disordered aperiodic systems, we s: show a wealth of examples of the changes that may be brought about on the critical behavior of Ising, Potts and interacting-polymer models. We employ non-perturbative real-space renormalization group techniques, as well as transfer-matrix methods to study the thermodynamics of such systems in the neighborhood of critical and tricritical points. Our conclusion is that although critical exponents may change appreciably in the presence of aperiodic distributions of couplings, universal classifications are nevertheless still workable. The universality classes associated to different models and the distinct ways of implementing aperiodicity are connected to unexpected attractors in Hamiltonian parameter space, which are thoroughly described. In case of random perturbations that break translational symmetry we argue that some universal classifications should still be possible. First, because these systems are in a sense analogous to the former aperiodic ones, and also because they always seem to be associated with some form of complex dynamics (as the dynamics of vitreous, non-random materials). We make some brief comments on this connection, and present a study of a very simpIe disordered model, whose thermodynamics is completely solvable, and which may hide some signatures of complex dynamics. Finally, we discuss the first steps of the so-called Martin-Siggia-Rose (MSR) method, which may be employed in advanced studies of systems undergoing Langevin-type evolutions, and which was responsible, some decades ago, for a first glimpse into the possible universality of complex dynamical behavior of disordered systems.