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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Tensor energia-momento de vácuo em teoria quântica de campos com quebra espontânea de simetria

Morais, Baltazar Jonas Ribeiro 18 April 2010 (has links)
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Nonequilibrium critical phenomena : exact Langevin equations, erosion of tilted landscapes. / Phénomènes critiques hors-équilibre : équations de Langevin exactes, érosion d'un paysage en pente

Duclut, Charlie 11 September 2017 (has links)
L'objet de cette thèse est l'étude de phénomènes critiques hors-équilibre. Pour décrire ces systèmes, l'utilisation d'équations de Langevin est souvent incontournable car elles permettent une description heuristique relativement simple du phénomène, construite en ajoutant un terme de bruit à la dynamique macroscopique. J'ai montré qu'il est toutefois possible, dans le cas des processus de réaction-diffusion, d'aller au delà de cette approche et de dériver une équation de Langevin exacte qui décrit la dynamique au niveau microscopique. Une seconde partie de ma thèse est consacrée à l'étude de modèles spécifiques de phénomènes critiques hors-équilibre à l'aide du groupe de renormalisation non-perturbatif (NPRG), une version moderne des blocs de spins de Wilson et Kadanoff. À l'équilibre, cet outil tire son succès de sa capacité à contrôler les fluctuations au voisinage de la transition grâce à un régulateur. Hors équilibre, les fluctuations temporelles doivent être traitées de la même façon, et j'ai donc conçu un régulateur qui contrôle à la fois les fluctuations spatiales et temporelles. Enfin, j'ai appliqué le NPRG à un modèle d'érosion. En effet, l'apparition générique de lois d'échelles dans les paysages suggère l'existence d'un mécanisme sous-jacent qui conduit ces systèmes à leur point critique. L'équation de Kardar-Parisi-Zhang modélise l'érosion à grande échelle (>2 km), mais ne s'accorde pas aux observations à plus petite échelle. Un modèle différent, tenant compte de l'anisotropie (la pente d'une montagne), fut donc suggéré. À l'aide du NPRG, je montre que ce modèle possède une ligne de points fixes qui correspond à un domaine continu d'exposants d'échelle. / This manuscript is focused on the study of critical phenomena taking place out-of-equilibrium. In the description of such phenomena, Langevin equations are ubiquitous and are usually derived in a phenomenological way by adding a noise term to a deterministic mean-field equation. However, I show that for reaction-diffusion processes it is in fact possible to derive an exact Langevin equation from the microscopic process. A second part of my thesis work has been devoted to the study of specific nonequilibrium critical phenomena using the nonperturbative renormalization group (NPRG), which is a modern implementation of Wilson and Kadanoff's block-spin idea. This tool, very powerful in an equilibrium context, takes care of the growing spatial fluctuations that arise near criticality through the use of a regulator. In a nonequilibrium context, the temporal fluctuations also have to be controlled. I have therefore designed a regulator that tackles both spatial and temporal fluctuations. Finally, I have applied the NPRG techniques to a model of landscape erosion: indeed, the generic scaling behaviour that appear in erosional landscapes suggests the existence of an underlying mechanism naturally fine-tuned to be critical. The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation seems to give a correct model for landscape erosion at large length scale (>2 km), but fails to predict the scaling observed at smaller scale. A different model was thus suggested which takes into account the intrinsic anisotropy at smaller length scale (the slope of the mountain). Using NPRG techniques, I show that this model possesses a line of fixed points associated with a continuous range of scaling exponents.
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Analytical methods and field theory for disordered systems / Méthodes analytiques et théorie des champs pour les systèmes désordonnés

Thiery, Thimothée 05 September 2016 (has links)
Cette thèse présente plusieurs aspects de la physique des systèmes élastiques désordonnés et des méthodes analytiques utilisées pour les étudier. On s’intéressera d’une part aux propriétés universelles des processus d’avalanches statiques et dynamiques (à la transition de dépiégeage) d’interfaces élastiques de dimension arbitraire en milieu aléatoire à température nulle. Pour étudier ces questions nous utiliserons le groupe de renormalisation fonctionnel. Après une revue de ces aspects,nous présenterons plus particulièrement les résultats obtenus pendant la thèse sur (i) la structure spatiale des avalanches et (ii) les corrélations entre avalanches.On s’intéressera d’autre part aux propriétés statiques à température finie de polymères dirigés en dimension 1+1, et en particulier aux observables liées à la classe d’universalité KPZ. Dans ce contexte l’étude de modèles exactement solubles a récemment permis de grands progrès. Après une revue de ces aspects, nous nous intéresserons plus particulièrement aux modèles exactement solubles de polymère dirigé sur le réseau carré, et présenterons les résultats obtenus pendantla thèse dans cette voie: (i) classification des modèles à température finie sur le réseau carré exactement solubles par ansatz de Bethe; (ii) universalité KPZ pour les modèles Log-Gamma et Inverse-Beta; (iii) universalité et nonuniversalitéKPZ pour le modèle Beta; (iv) mesures stationnaires du modèle Inverse-Beta et des modèles à température nulle associés. / This thesis presents several aspects of the physics of disordered elastic systems and of the analytical methods used for their study.On one hand we will be interested in universal properties of avalanche processes in the statics and dynamics (at the depinning transition) of elastic interfaces of arbitrary dimension in disordered media at zero temperature. To study these questions we will use the functional renormalization group. After a review of these aspects we will more particularly present the results obtained during the thesis on (i) the spatial structure of avalanches and (ii) the correlations between avalanches.On the other hand we will be interested in static properties of directed polymers in 1+1 dimension, and in particular in observables related to the KPZ universality class. In this context the study of exactly solvable models has recently led to important progress. After a review of these aspects we will be more particularly interested in exactly solvable models of directed polymer on the square lattice and present the results obtained during the thesis in this direction: (i) classification ofBethe ansatz exactly solvable models of directed polymer at finite temperature on the square lattice; (ii) KPZ universality for the Log-Gamma and Inverse-Beta models; (iii) KPZ universality and non-universality for the Beta model; (iv) stationary measures of the Inverse- Beta model and of related zero temperature models.
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Properties Of The Correlated Electronic States In Conjugated Organic Molecules, Polymers And Metal-Halogen Chains

Anusooya, Y 11 1900 (has links) (PDF)
No description available.
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Optimalizované simulace kvantových systémů a metoda DMRG / Optimizing quantum simulations and the DMRG method

Brandejs, Jan January 2016 (has links)
Title: Optimizing quantum simulations and the DMRG method Author: Jan Brandejs Department: Department of Chemical Physics and Optics Supervisor: doc. Dr. rer. nat. Jiří Pittner, DSc., J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract: In this work, we explore the quantum information theoretical aspects of simulation of quantum systems on classical computers, in particular the many- electron strongly correlated wave functions. We describe a way how to reduce the amount of data required for storing the wavefunction by a lossy compression of quantum information. For this purpose, we describe the measures of quantum entanglement for the density matrix renormalization group method. We imple- ment the computation of multi-site generalization of mutual information within the DMRG method and investigate entanglement patterns of strongly correlated chemical systems. We present several ways how to optimize the ground state calculation in the DMRG method. The theoretical conclusions are supported by numerical simulations of the diborane molecule, exhibiting chemically interest- ing electronic structure, like the 3-centered 2-electron bonds. In the theoretical part, we give a brief introduction to the principles of the DMRG method. Then we explain the quantum informational...
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Studies of effective theories beyond the Standard Model

Riad, Stella January 2014 (has links)
The vast majority of all experimental results in particle physics can be described by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. However, neither the existence of neutrino masses nor the mixing in the leptonic sector, which have been observed, can be described within this model. In fact, the model only describes a fraction of the known energy in the Universe. Thus, we know there must exist a theory beyond the SM. There is a plethora of possible candidates for such a model, such as supersymmetry, extra dimensional theories, and string theory. So far, there are no evidence in favor of these models. These theories often reside at high energies, and will therefore be manifest as effective theories at the low energies experienced here on Earth. A first example in extra-dimensional theories. From our four-dimensional point of view, particles which propagate through the extra dimensions will effectivel be perceived as towers of heavy particles. In this thesis we consider an extra-dimensional model with universal extra dimensions, where all SM particles are allowed to propagate through the extra dimensions. Especially, we place a bound on the range of validity for this model. We study the renormalization group running of the leptonic parameters as well as the Higgs self-coupling in this model with the neutrino masses generated by a Weinberg operator. Grand unified theories, where the gauge couplings of the SM are unified into a single oe at some high energy scale, are motivated by the electroweak unification. The unification must necessarily take place at energies many orders of magnitude greater than those that ever can be achieved on Earth. In order to make sense of the theoru, ehich is given at the grand unified scale, at the electroweak scale, the symmetry at the grand unified scale is broken down to the SM symmetry. Within these models the SM is considered as an effective field theory. We study renormalization group running of the leptonic parameters in a non-supersymmetric SO(10) model which is broken in two steps via the Pati-Salam group. Finally, the discovery of the new boson at the LHC provides a new opportunity to search for physics beyond the SM. We consider an effective model where the magnitudes of the couplings in the Higgs sector are scaled by so-called coupling scale factors. We perform Bayesian parameter inference based on the LHC data. Furthermore, we perform Bayesian model comparison, comparing models where one or several of the Higgs couplings are allowed, to the SM, where the couplings are fixed. / <p>QC 20141020</p>
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Vývoj nových kvantově-chemických metod pro silně korelované systémy / Coupled clusters tailored by matrix product state wave functions

Antalík, Andrej January 2021 (has links)
The central problem in the modern electronic structure theory is the calculation of cor- relation energy, possibly by an approach that would account for both static and dynamic correlation in an efficient, balanced and accurate way. In this thesis, I present a collection of methods that combine the effective treatment of dynamic correlation by the coupled cluster theory with density matrix renormalization group, a well-established technique for calculations of strongly correlated systems. The connection between them is achieved via the tailored coupled clusters (TCC) ansatz, which conveniently does not impose any ad- ditional computational costs. After the successful initial assessment, we developed more efficient implementations of these methods by employing the local approaches based on pair natural orbitals. This way, we extended the range of possible applications to larger systems with thousands of basis functions. To assess the accuracy of TCC as well as its local counterparts, we performed a variety of benchmark calculations ranging from small, yet challenging systems such as the nitrogen molecule or tetramethyleneethane diradical, to larger molecules like oxo-Mn(Salen) or Fe(II)-porphyrin model. 1
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Emergence and Breakdown of Quantum Scale Symmetry: From Correlated Condensed Matter to Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Ray, Shouryya 13 October 2022 (has links)
Scale symmetry is notoriously fickle: even when (approximately) present at the classical level, quantum fluctuations often break it, sometimes rather dramatically. Indeed, contemporary physics encompasses the study of very different phenomena at very different scales, e.g., from the (nominally) meV scale of spin systems, via the eV of electronic band structures, to the GeV of elementary particles, and possibly even the 10¹⁹ GeV of quantum gravity. However, there are often – possibly surprising – analogies between systems across these seemingly disparate settings. Studying the possible emergence of quantum scale symmetry and its breakdown is one way to systematically exploit these similarities, and in fact allows one to make testable predictions within a unified technical framework (viz., the renormalization group). The aim of this thesis is to do so for a few explicit scenarios. In the first four of these, quantum scale symmetry emerges in the long-wavelength limit near a quantum phase transition, over length scales of the order of the correlation length. In the fifth example, quantum scale symmetry is restored at very high energies (i.e., at and above the Planck scale), but severely constrains the phenomenology at 'low' energies (e.g., at accelerator scales), despite scale invariance being badly broken there. We begin with the Gross–Neveu (= chiral) SO(3) transition in D = 2+1 spacetime dimensions, which notably has been proposed to describe the transition of certain spin-orbital liquids to antiferromagnets. The chiral fermions that suffer a spontaneous breakdown of their isospin symmetry in this setting are fractionalized excitations (called spinons), and are as such difficult to observe directly in experiment. However, as gapless degrees of freedom, they leave their imprint on critical exponents, which may hence serve as a diagnostic tool for such unconventional excitations. These may be computed using (comparatively) conventional field-theoretic techniques. Here, we employ three complementary methods: a three-loop expansion in D = 4 - ε spacetime dimensions, a second-next-leading order expansion in large flavour number N , and a non-perturbative calculation using the functional renormalization group in the improved local potential approximation. The results are in fair agreement with each other, and yield combined best-guess estimates that may serve as benchmarks for numerical simulations, and possibly experiments on candidate spin liquids. We next turn our attention to spontaneous symmetry breaking at zero temperature in quasi-planar (electronic) semimetals. We begin with Luttinger semimetals, i.e., semimetals where two bands touch quadratically at isolated points of the Brioullin zone; Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBLG) within certain approximations is one example. Luttinger semimetals are unstable at infinitesimal 4-Fermi interaction towards an ordered state (i.e., the field theory is asymptotically free rather than safe). Nevertheless, since the interactions are marginal, there are several pathologies in the critical behaviour. We show how these pathologies may be understood as a collision between the IR-stable Gaußian fixed point and a critical fixed point distinct from the Gaußian one in d = 2 + ε spatial dimensions. Observables like the order-parameter expectation value develop essential rather than power-law singularities; their exponent, as shown herein by explicit computation for the minimal model of two-component ‘spinors’, is distinct from the mean-field one. More tellingly, although finite critical exponents often default to canonical power-counting values, the susceptibility exponent turns out to be one-loop exact, and, in said minimal model takes the value γ = 2γᵐᵉᵃⁿ⁻ᶠᶦᵉˡᵈ = 2. Such an exact yet non-mean-field prediction can serve as a useful benchmark for numerical methods. We then proceed to scenarios in D = 2 + 1 spacetime dimensions where Dirac fermions can arise from Luttinger fermions due to low rotational symmetry. In BBLG, the 'Dirac from Luttinger' mechanism can occur both due to explicit and spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry. The explicit symmetry breaking is due to the underlying honeycomb lattice, which only has C₃ symmetry around the location of the band crossings (so-called K points). As a consequence, the quadratic band crossing points each split into four Dirac cones, which is shown explicitly by computing the two-loop self-energy in the 4-Fermi theory. Within our approximations, we can estimate the critical coupling up to which a semimetallic state survives; it is finite (unlike a quadratic band touching point with high rotational symmetry), but significantly smaller than a 'vanilla' Dirac semimetal. Based on the ordering temperature of BBLG, our rough estimate further shows that the (effective) coupling strength in BBLG may be close to the critical value, in sharp contrast to other quasi-planar Dirac semimetals (such as monolayer graphene). Rotational symmetry in BBLG may also be broken spontaneously, i.e., due to the presence of nematic order, whereby a quadratic band crossing splits into two Dirac cones. Such a scenario is also very appealing for BBLG, since the precise nature of the ordered ground state of BBLG has not been established unambiguously: whilst some experiments show an insulating ground state with a full bulk gap, others show a partial gap opening with four isolated linear band crossings. Here, we show within a simplified phenomenological model using mean-field theory that there exists an extended region of parameter space with coexisting nematic and layer-polarized antiferromagnetic order, with a gapless nematic phase on one side and a gapped antiferromagnetic phase on the other. We then show that the nematic-to-coexistence quantum phase transition has emergent Lorentz invariance to one-loop in D = 2 + ε as well as D = 4 - ϵ dimensions, and thus falls into the celebrated Gross-Neveu-Heisenberg universality class. Combining previous higher-order field-theoretic results, we derive best-guess estimates for the critical exponents of this transition, with the theoretical uncertainty coming out somewhat smaller than in the monolayer counterpart due to the enlarged number of fermion components. Overall, BBLG may hence be a promising candidate for experimentally accessible Gross–Neveu quantum criticality in D = 2 + 1 spacetime dimensions. Finally, we turn our attention to the 'low-energy' consequences of transplanckian quantum scale symmetry. Extensions to the Standard Model that tend to lower the Higgs mass have many phenomenologically attractive properties (e.g., it would allow one to accommodate a more stable electroweak vacuum). Dark matter is one well-motivated candidate for such an extension. However, even in the most conservative settings, one usually has to contend with a significantly enlarged number of free parameters, and a concomitant reduction of predictivity. Here, we investigate how asymptotic safety (i.e., imposing quantum scale symmetry at the Planck scale and above) may constrain the Higgs mass in Standard Model (plus quantum gravity) when coupled to Yukawa dark matter via a Higgs portal. Working in a toy version of the Standard Model consisting of the top quark and the radial mode of the Higgs, we show within certain approximations that the Higgs mass may be lowered by the necessary amount if the dark scalar undergoes spontaneous symmetry breaking, as a function of the dark scalar mass, which is the only free parameter left in the theory.:1 Introduction 1.1 Scale invariance – why and where 1.1.1 Fundamental quantum field theories 1.1.2 Universality 1.1.3 Novel phases of matter 1.2 Outline of this thesis 2 Renormalization Group: A Brief Review 2.1 Quantum fluctuations and generating functionals 2.2 Renormalization group flow 2.3 Basic notions 2.4 Scale transformations, scale symmetry and RG fixed points 2.5 Characterization and interpretation of RG fixed points 2.5.1 Formal aspects 2.5.2 Scaling at (quantum) phase transitions 2.5.3 Predictivity in fundamental physics 2.5.4 Effective asymptotic safety in particle physics and condensed matter 3 Gross–Neveu SO(3) Quantum Criticality in 2 + 1 Dimensions 3.1 Effective field theory 3.2 Renormalization and critical exponents 3.2.1 4 - ϵ expansion 3.2.1.1 Method 3.2.1.2 Flow equations 3.2.1.3 Critical exponents 3.2.2 Large-N expansion 3.2.2.1 Method 3.2.2.2 Critical exponents 3.2.3 Non-perturbative FRG 3.2.3.1 Flow equations 3.2.3.2 Representation of the effective potential 3.2.3.3 Choice of regulator 3.2.3.4 Limiting behaviour 3.3 Discussion 3.3.1 General behaviour and qualitative aspects 3.3.2 Quantitative estimates for D = 3 3.4 Summary and outlook 4 Luttinger Fermions in Two Spatial Dimensions 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Action from top-down construction 4.3 Renormalization 4.3.1 4-Fermi formulation 4.3.2 Yukawa formulation 4.4 Fixed-point analysis 4.5 Non-mean-field behaviour 4.5.1 Order-parameter expectation value 4.5.2 Susceptibility exponent 4.6 Bottom-up construction: Spinless fermions on kagome lattice 4.6.1 Tight-binding dispersion 4.6.2 From Hubbard to Fermi 4.6.3 Fate of particle-hole asymmetry 4.7 Discussion 5 Dirac from Luttinger I: Explicit Symmetry Breaking 5.1 From lattice to continuum 5.1.1 Fermions on Bernal-stacked honeycomb bilayer 5.1.2 Continuum limit 5.1.3 Interactions 5.2 Mean-field theory 5.3 Renormalization-group analysis 5.3.1 Flow equations 5.3.2 Basic flow properties 5.3.3 Phase diagrams 5.4 Discussion 5.5 Summary and outlook 6 Dirac from Luttinger II: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking 6.1 Model 6.2 Phase diagram and transitions 6.3 Emergent Lorentz symmetry 6.3.1 Loop expansion near lower critical dimension 6.3.1.1 Minimal 4-Fermi model 6.3.1.2 Gross–Neveu–Heisenberg fixed point 6.3.1.3 Fate of rotational symmetry breaking 6.3.2 Loop expansion near upper critical dimension 6.3.2.1 Gross–Neveu–Yukawa–Heisenberg model 6.3.2.2 Gross–Neveu–Yukawa–Heisenberg fixed point 6.3.2.3 Fate of rotational symmetry breaking 6.4 Critical exponents 6.5 Discussion 7 Higgs Mass in Asymptotically Safe Gravity with a Dark Portal 7.1 Review: The asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity and matter 7.2 Review: Higgs mass, and RG flow in the SM and beyond 7.2.1 Higgs mass in the SM 7.2.2 Higgs mass bounds in bosonic portal models 7.2.3 Higgs mass in asymptotic safety 7.2.4 Higgs Portal and Asymptotic Safety 7.3 Higgs mass in an asymptotically safe dark portal model 7.3.1 The UV regime 7.3.2 Flow towards the IR 7.3.3 Infrared masses 7.3.4 From the UV to the IR – Contrasting effective field theory and asymptotic safety 7.4 Discussion 8 Conclusions Appendices A Position-space propagator for C₃-symmetric QBT B Two-sided Padé approximants for C₃-symmetric QBTs C Corrections to the mean-field nematic order-parameter effective potential due to explicit symmetry breaking D Self-energy in anisotropic Yukawa theory E Master integrals for anisotropic Yukawa theory Bibliography
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A Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Quantum Spin Models with Ring Exchange

Chan, Alexander 10 1900 (has links)
<p>In this thesis we discuss in detail the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) for simulating low-energy properties of quantum spin models. We implement an original DMRG routine on the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain and benchmark its efficiency against exact results (energies, correlation functions, etc.) as well as conformal field-theoretical calculations due to finite-size scaling (ground-state energy and spin gap logarithmic corrections). Moreover, we apply the DMRG to a two-leg square ladder system, where in addition to bilinear exchange terms, we also consider an additional cyclic four-spin ring-exchange. The transposition of four spins gives rise to biquadratic exchange terms which are non-trivial to implement in the DMRG. Intermediate results of the ring-exchange are presented along with the difficulties presently encountered.</p> / Master of Science (MSc)
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Topological Quantum Impurity Models

Guangjie Li (18419091) 22 April 2024 (has links)
<p dir="ltr">A bath of free electrons interacting with a local quantum impurity leads to various exotic non-Fermi liquid behaviors, such as the non-integer effective ground state degeneracy of the impurity and the correction to the zero temperature conductance, which is temperature to the power of a fractional number. The former indicates emergent anyons, which are the key ingredients for achieving topological protected quantum computations. The latter can be used for experimentally probing non-Fermi liquid physics. It was recently proposed that a Coulomb blockaded M-Majorana island coupled to normal metal leads realizes a novel type of Kondo effect where the effective impurity “spin” transforms under the orthogonal group SO(M). Inspired by the multichannel generalization of the original Kondo model, we introduce a physically motivated N-channel generalization of this topological Kondo model whose impurity spin stems from the non-local topological ground state degeneracy of the island. This multichannel topological Kondo model supports Z3 parafermion and Fibonacci anyon (not supported by one-channel topological Kondo model) but may be limited to experiments because it is unstable to channel anisotropy. Therefore, we propose a Majorana-free meso- scopic setup which implements the Kondo effect of the symplectic Lie group and can harbor emergent anyons (including Majorana fermions, Fibonacci anyons, and Z3 parafermions) even in the absence of perfect channel symmetry. Besides, I comment on the future work such as the strong tunneling case that is beyond the topological Kondo regime and the two-impurity Kondo physics.</p>

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