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PhD Thesis / The superconductivity in heavy-fermion compounds, iron pnictides and cuprates has been intensively studied for over thirty years. Amongst some of these materials, the common denominator is the presence of strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations in their normal state, signaling an underlying quantum phase transition between a paramagnetic metal and a metal with antiferromagnetic long-range order. Although the quantum critical point is experimentally inaccessible due to the presence of superconducting order, it determines the physical properties of the normal state of the metal in a wide range of temperatures. In this thesis we study the low-energy theory for the critical metallic state that arises at the aforementioned quantum critical point. We present a nonperturbative study of the theory in spatial dimensions between two and three. We pay special attention to two dimensions where we show that our physical predictions are in qualitative agreement with experiments in electron-doped cuprates. We further develop a field theoretic functional renormalization group scheme that is analytically tractable. It provides a general framework to study the low-energy theory of metallic states with or without a quasiparticle description. Within this formalism we characterize the single-particle properties of the antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal. This allows one to study the superconducting instability triggered by critical antiferromagnetic quantum fluctuations quantitatively. / Thesis / Doctor of Science (PhD)

In this thesis, we focus on the steady state properties of two systems which are genuinely out of equilibrium. The first project is an application of dynamic field theory to a specific non equilibrium critical phenomenon, while the second project involves both simulations and analytical calculations. The methods of field theory are used on both these projects. In the first part of this thesis, we investigate a generalization of the well-known field theory for directed percolation (DP). The DP theory is known to describe an evolving population, near extinction. We have coupled this evolving population to an environment with its own nontrivial spatio-temporal dynamics. Here, we consider the special case where the environment follows a simple relaxational (model A) dynamics. We find two marginal couplings with upper critical dimension of four, which couple the two theories in a nontrivial way. While the Wilson-Fisher fixed point remains completely unaffected, a mismatch of time scales destabilizes the usual DP fixed point. Some open questions and future work remain. In the second project, we focus on a simple particle transport model far from equilibrium, namely, the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP). While its stationary properties are well studied, many of its dynamic features remain unexplored. Here, we focus on the power spectrum of the total particle occupancy in the system. This quantity exhibits unexpected oscillations in the low density phase. Using standard Monte Carlo simulations and analytic calculations, we probe the dependence of these oscillations on boundary effects, the system size, and the overall particle density. Our simulations are fitted to the predictions of a linearized theory for the fluctuation of the particle density. Two of the fit parameters, namely the diffusion constant and the noise strength, deviate from their naive bare values [6]. In particular, the former increases significantly with the system size. Since this behavior can only be caused by nonlinear effects, we calculate the lowest order corrections in perturbation theory. Several open questions and future work are discussed. / Ph. D.

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Renormalization group analysis is a useful tool for studying critical behaviour of stochastic systems. In this thesis, field-theoretic renormalization group will be applied to the scalar model representing directed percolation, known as Gribov model, in presence of the random velocity field. Turbulent mixing will be modelled by the compressible form of stochastic Navier-Stokes equation where the compressibility is described by an additional field related to the density. The task will be to find corresponding scaling properties.

This thesis begins with the fundamentals of conformal field theory in three dimensions. The general properties of the conformal bootstrap are then reviewed. The three-dimensional Ising model is presented from the perspective of the renormalization group, after which the conformal field theory aspect at the critical point is discussed. Finally, the bootstrap programme is applied to the three-dimensional Ising model using numerical techniques, and the results analysed.

Dans le cadre de cette thèse nous utilisons les techniques du groupe de renormalisation pour étudier des systèmes vitreux. Plus précisément, nous étudions des modèles de verres de spins et de verres structuraux.Le modèles de verres de spin représentent des matériaux magnétiques désordonnés uniaxaux, comme une solution diluée de Mn en Cu, donnée par un réseau de spins situés sur le Mn et disposés aléatoirement dans le réseau des atomes de Cu. Ces spins interagissent entre eux avec un potentiel qui oscille en fonction de la séparation entre les spins. Quant aux modèles de verres structuraux, ils représentent des liquides qui ont été refroidis assez rapidement pour ne pas cristalliser, comme le o-Terphényle ou le Glycérol. Les verres se spin et les verres structuraux sont intéressants physiquement parce que leurs propriétés critiques ne sont connues que dans la limite où la dimension de l'espace tends ver l'infinie, c'est-à-dire dans l'approximation de champ moyen. Une question fondamentale est si les propriétés physiques qui caractérisent ces systèmes dans le cas du champ moyen restent ou pas valables pour des verres de spin et des verres structuraux réels, qui sont dans un espace avec un nombre finie de dimensions.Les modèles de verres de spin et de verres structuraux que nous étudions dans ce travail de thèse sont des des modèles construits sur des réseaux hiérarchiques, qui sont les systèmes non-champ moyen les plus simples où l'approche du groupe de renormalisation peut être implémentée de façon naturelle. Les propriétés qui émergent de l'implémentation de la transformation du groupe de renormalisation clarifient le comportement critique de ces systèmes. En ce qui concerne le modèle de verre de spin en dimension finie que nous avons étudié, nous avons développé une nouvelle technique pour implémenter la transformation du groupe de renormalisation pour les verres de spin en dimension finie. Cette technique montre que le système a une transition de phase, caractérisée par un point critique où la longueur de corrélation du système devient infinie. Quant au modèle de verre structural en dimension finie que nous avons étudié, ceci est le premier modèle de verre structural pour lequel on a démontré l'existence d'une transition de phase au delà du champ moyen. Les idées introduites dans ce travail peuvent être développées dans le but de comprendre la structure de la phase de basse température de ces systèmes, et dans le but comprendre si les propriétés de la phase de basse température du champ moyen continuent à être valables pour les systèmes vitreux en dimension finie. / In this thesis we investigate the employ of the renormalization group for glassy systems. More precisely, we focus on models of spin glasses and structural glasses. Spin-glass models represent disordered uniaxial magnetic materials, such as a dilute solution of Mn in Cu, modeled by an array of spins on the Mn arranged at random in the matrix of Cu, and interacting with a potential which oscillates as a function of the separation of the spins. Structural glasses are liquids that have been cooled fast enough to avoid crystallization, like o-Terphenyl or Glycerol. Spin and structural glasses are physically interesting because their critical properties are known only in the limit where the space dimensionality tends to infinity, i. e. in the mean-field approximation. A fundamental question is whether the physical properties characterizing these systems in the mean-field case still hold for real spin or structural glasses, which live in a space with a finite number of dimensions. The spin and structural glasses that we study in this thesis are models built up on hierarchical lattices, which are the simplest non-mean field systems where the renormalisation group approach can be implemented in a natural way. The features emerging from this implementation clarify the critical behavior of these systems. As far as the finite-dimensional spin glass studied in this thesis is concerned, we developed a new technique to implement the renormalization group transformation for finite-dimensional spin glasses. This technique shows that the system has a finite-temperature phase transition characterized by a critical point where the system's correlation length is infinite. As far as the structural glass studied in this thesis is concerned, this is the first structural glass model where we showed the existence of a phase transition beyond mean field. The ideas introduced in this work can be further developed in order to understand the structure of the low-temperature phase of these systems, and in order to establish whether the properties of the low-temperature phase holding in the mean-field case still hold for finite-dimensional glassy systems.

Estudamos o calor específico de um sistema formado por duas impurezas adsorvidas, sem spin, em meio fermiônico (banda de condução do metal) e que contém um buraco (elétron) tunelando entre elas. Modelamos esse sistema por dois níveis acoplados e que sofrem interação Coulombiana com a banda de condução. Através da análise das curvas de calor específico, investigamos a alteração (renormalização) da taxa de tunelamento em função da interação eletrostática entre os elétrons da banda de condução e o buraco tunelante e da separação entre as impurezas. Utilizamos o Hamiltoniano de Kondo de tunelamento para representar esse modelo e usamos o Grupo de Renormalização Numérico para diagonalizá-lo. Analisamos a influência de cada termo do Hamiltoniano na renormalização da taxa de tunelamento e verificamos que a troca de paridade das funções de onda do buraco tunelante e dos elétrons da banda desempenha papel essencial. Encontramos uma expressão que combina a distância entre as impurezas e a interação Coulombiana em um único parâmetro (a), de tal forma que sistemas diferentes mas que apresentam o mesmo a e a mesma taxa de tunelamento livre têm a mesma curva de calor específico. / We calculate the specific heat of the two-spinless impurity coupled to a fermionic bath. The model takes into account the tunneling of a hole between the impurities. The two-level system representing the impurities is coupled electrostatically with the conduction electrons. Through the specific heat curves, we analyse the renormalization of the tunneling rate as a function of the Coulomb interaction and distance between impurities. The Numerical Renormalization Group is used to diagonalize the tunneling Hamiltonian proposed by Kondo. We analyse the role of each term of the Hamiltonian in the renormalization of the bare tunneling rate and we stress the importance of the exchange parity between impurity states and conduction states. Finally, a parameter a, is found which combines the distance between impurities and Coulomb interaction in such a way that every curve is specified only by a and the bare tunneling rate.

Espectros de foto-emissão são calculados com um modelo simples para a adsorção química em superfícies metálicas. Neste modelo já discutido por outros autores, o metal é representado por uma banda de condução semipreenchida e o íon adsorvido por dois níveis: um nível profundo, inicialmente ocupado pelo fotoelétron e o segundo, um nível ressonante, um orbital do átomo adsorvido o qual, atraído pelo potencial do buraco profundo, é deslocado para abaixo da energia de Fermi. O cálculo, baseado nas técnicas de grupo de renormalização desenvolvidas por Wilson para resolver o problema Kondo, considera pela primeira vez a interação eletrostática entre o buraco profundo e os estados de condução. Os resultados mostram que esta interação reduz efetivamente o acoplamento entre o nível ressonante e a banda de condução, e, portanto, modifica qualitativamente os espectros de foto-emissão. / X-Ray Photoemission spectra (XPS) are calculated for a simple model for chemisorptions on metallic surfaces. In the spineless model, already discussed by other authors, the metal is represented by a half-filled conduction band and the adsorbed ion by two levels, one representative of a deep core state initially occupied by the photoelectron and the second, a resonant level, of an initially empty adsorbate orbital which, attracted by the core hole potential, is dragged below the Fermi energy. The calculation based on the renormalization group techniques devised by Wilson to analyze the Rondo problem, accounts for the first time for the electrostatic interaction between the core hole and the conduction states. The results show that this interaction effectively narrows the coupling between the resonant level and the conduction band and hence changes qualitatively the photoemission spectra.