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Marginal Fermi liquid behavior from 2d Coulomb interaction
A full, nonperturbative renormalization group analysis of interacting
electrons in a graphite layer is performed, in order to investigate the
deviations from Fermi liquid theory that have been observed in the experimental
measures of a linear quasiparticle decay rate in graphite. The electrons are
coupled through Coulomb interactions, which remain unscreened due to the
semimetallic character of the layer. We show that the model flows towards the
noninteracting fixed-point for the whole range of couplings, with logarithmic
corrections which signal the marginal character of the interaction separating
Fermi liquid and non-Fermi liquid regimes.Comment: 7 pages, 2 Postscript figure
Striped phases in the two-dimensional Hubbard model with long-range Coulomb interaction
We investigate the formation of partially filled domain walls in the
two-dimensional Hubbard model in the presence of long-range interaction. Using
an unrestricted Gutzwiller variational approach we show that: i) the strong
local interaction favors charge segregation in stripe domain walls; ii) The
long-range interaction favors the formation of half-filled vertical stripes
with a period doubling due to the charge and a period quadrupling due to the
spins along the wall. Our results show that, besides the underlying lattice
structure, also the electronic interactions can contribute to determine the
different domain wall textures in Nd doped copper oxides and nickel oxides
Interchain coherence of coupled Luttinger liquids at all orders in perturbation theory
We analyze the problem of Luttinger liquids coupled via a single-particle
hopping \tp and introduce a systematic diagrammatic expansion in powers of
\tp. An analysis of the scaling of the diagrams at each order allows us to
determine the power-law behavior versus \tp of the interchain hopping and of
the Fermi surface warp. In particular, for strong interactions, we find that
the exponents are dominated by higher-order diagrams producing an enhanced
coherence and a failure of linear-response theory. Our results are valid at any
finite order in \tp for the self-energy.Comment: 4 pages, 3 ps figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
X-Ray Resonant Scattering as a Direct Probe of Orbital Ordering in Transition-Metal Oxides
X-ray resonant scattering at the K-edge of transition metal oxides is shown
to measure the orbital order parameter, supposed to accompany magnetic ordering
in some cases. Virtual transitions to the 3d-orbitals are quadrupolar in
general. In cases with no inversion symmetry, such as VO, treated in
detail here, a dipole component enhances the resonance. Hence, we argue that
the detailed structure of orbital order in VO is experimentally
accessible.Comment: LaTex using RevTex, 4 pages and two included postscript figure
Theory for Phase Transitions in Insulating Vanadium Oxide
We show that the recently proposed S=2 bond model with orbital degrees of
freedom for insulating VO not only explains the anomalous magnetic
ordering, but also other mysteries of the magnetic phase transition. The model
contains an additional orbital degree of freedom that exhibits a zero
temperature quantum phase transtion in the Ising universality class.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Crossover from Luttinger- to Fermi-liquid behavior in strongly anisotropic systems in large dimensions
We consider the low-energy region of an array of Luttinger liquids coupled by
a weak interchain hopping. The leading logarithmic divergences can be re-summed
to all orders within a self-consistent perturbative expansion in the hopping,
in the large-dimension limit. The anomalous exponent scales to zero below the
one-particle crossover temperature. As a consequence, coherent quasiparticles
with finite weight appear along the whole Fermi surface. Extending the
expansion self-consistently to all orders turns out to be crucial in order to
restore the correct Fermi-liquid behavior.Comment: Shortened version to appear in Physical Review Letter
Supergravity and IOSp(3,1|4) gauge theory
A new formulation of simple D=4 supergravity in terms of the geometry of
superspace is presented. The formulation is derived from the gauge theory of
the inhomogeneous orthosymplectic group IOSp(3,1|4) on a (4,4)-dimensional base
supermanifold by imposing constraints and taking a limit. Both the constraints
and the limiting procedure have a clear {\it a priori} physical motivation,
arising from the relationship between IOSp(3,1|4) and the super Poincar\'{e}
group. The construction has similarities with the space-time formulation of
Newtonian gravity.Comment: 17 pages. Expanded version. To appear in Class. Quantum Gra
Quasi-Particles in Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model: Splitting of Spectral Weight
It is shown that the energy and momentum dependences of
the electron self-energy function are, where is some
constant, being the band energy,
and the critical exponent , which depends on the curvature of the
Fermi surface at , satisfies, . This leads to a
new type of electron liquid, which is the Fermi liquid in the limit of but for has a split
one-particle spectra as in the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid.Comment: 8 pages (LaTeX) 4 figures available upon request will be sent by air
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Solar neutrino interactions: Using charged currents at SNO to tell neutral currents at Super-Kamiokande
In the presence of flavor oscillations, muon and tau neutrinos can contribute
to the Super-Kamiokande (SK) solar neutrino signal through the neutral current
process \nu_{\mu,\tau} e^{-}\to \nu_{\mu,\tau} e^{-}. We show how to separate
the \nu_e and \nu_{\mu,\tau} event rates in SK in a model independent way, by
using the rate of the charged current process \nu_e d \to p p e^{-} from the
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment, with an appropriate choice of
the SK and SNO energy thresholds. Under the additional hypothesis of no
oscillations into sterile states, we also show how to determine the absolute
^{8}B neutrino flux from the same data set, independently of the \nu_e survival
probability.Comment: 14 pages (RevTeX), incl. 3 figures (epsf), submitted to Phys. ReV.
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