Andreas Sinner

Spectral function and quasiparticle damping of interacting Bosons in two dimensions.

We employ the functional renormalization group to study dynamical properties of the two-dimensional Bose gas. Our approach is free of infrared divergences, which plague the usual diagrammatic approaches, and is consistent with the exact Nepomnyashchy identity, which states that the anomalous self-energy vanishes at zero frequency and momentum. We recover the correct infrared behavior of the propagators and present explicit results for the spectral line shape, from which we extract the quasiparticle dispersion and damping.

Functional renormalization group in the broken symmetry phase: momentum dependence and two-parameter scaling of the self-energy

We include spontaneous symmetry breaking in the functional renormalization group equations for the irreducible vertices of Ginzburg–Landau theories by augmenting these equations by a flow equation for the order parameter, which is determined from the requirement that at each renormalization group (RG) step the vertex with one external leg vanishes identically. Using this strategy, we propose a simple truncation of the coupled RG flow equations for the vertices in the broken symmetry phase of the Ising universality class in D dimensions. Our truncation yields the full momentum dependence of the self-energy Σ(k) and interpolates between lowest-order perturbation theory at large momenta k and the critical scaling regime for small k. Close to the critical point, our method yields the self-energy in the scaling form Σ(k) = kc2σ−(|k|ξ,|k|/kc), where ξ is the order parameter correlation length, kc is the Ginzburg scale, and σ−(x,y) is a dimensionless two-parameter scaling function for the broken symmetry phase which we calculate explicitly within our truncation.

Two-parameter scaling of correlation functions near continuous phase transitions.

We discuss the order parameter correlation function in the vicinity of continuous phase transitions using a two-parameter scaling form G(k)=kc(-2)g(kxi,k/kc), where k is the wave vector and xi is the correlation length, and the interaction-dependent nonuniversal momentum scale kc remains finite at the critical fixed point. The correlation function describes the entire critical regime and captures the classical to critical crossover. One-parameter scaling is recovered only in the limit k/kc-->0. We present an approximate calculation of g(x,y) for the Ising universality class using the functional renormalization group.

Landau functions for noninteracting bosons

We discuss the statistics of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a canonical ensemble of N noninteracting bosons in terms of a Landau function L{sub N}{sup BEC}(q) defined by the logarithm of the probability distribution of the order parameter q for BEC. We also discuss the corresponding Landau function for spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB), which for finite N should be distinguished from L{sub N}{sup BEC}(q). Only for N{yields}{infinity} BEC and SSB can be described by the same Landau function which depends on the dimensionality and on the form of the external potential in a surprisingly complex manner. For bosons confined by a three-dimensional harmonic trap the Landau function exhibits the usual behavior expected for continuous phase transitions.

Finite-size scaling in a 2D disordered electron gas with spectral nodes.

We study the DC conductivity of a weakly disordered 2D electron gas with two bands and spectral nodes, employing the field theoretical version of the Kubo-Greenwood conductivity formula. Disorder scattering is treated within the standard perturbation theory by summing up ladder and maximally crossed diagrams. The emergent gapless (diffusion) modes determine the behavior of the conductivity on large scales. We find a finite conductivity with an intermediate logarithmic finite-size scaling towards smaller conductivities but do not obtain the logarithmic divergence of the weak-localization approach. Our results agree with the experimentally observed logarithmic scaling of the conductivity in graphene with the formation of a plateau near [Formula: see text].

Emergent Chern-Simons excitations due to electron-phonon interaction

We address the problem of Dirac fermions interacting with longitudinal phonons. A gap in the spectrum of fermions leads to the emergence of the Chern--Simons excitations in the spectrum of phonons. We study the effect of those excitations on observable quantities: the phonon dispersion, the phonon spectral density, and the Hall conductivity.

Functional renormalization group approach to the two dimensional Bose gas

We investigate the small frequency and momentum structure of the weakly interacting Bose gas in two dimensions using a functional renormalization group approach. The flow equations are derived within a derivative approximation of the effective action up to second order in spatial and temporal variables and investigated numerically. The truncation we employ is based on the perturbative structure of the theory and is well described as a renormalization group enhanced perturbation theory. It allows to calculate corrections to the Bogoliubov spectrum and to investigate the damping of quasiparticles. Our approach allows to circumvent the divergences which plague the usual perturbative approach.