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Semiclassical Analysis of Extended Dynamical Mean Field Equations
The extended Dynamical Mean Field Equations (EDMFT) are analyzed using
semiclassical methods for a model describing an interacting fermi-bose system.
We compare the semiclassical approach with the exact QMC (Quantum Montecarlo)
method. We found the transition to an ordered state to be of the first order
for any dimension below four.Comment: RevTex, 39 pages, 16 figures; Appendix C added, typos correcte
Magnetotransport near a quantum critical point in a simple metal
We use geometric considerations to study transport properties, such as the
conductivity and Hall coefficient, near the onset of a nesting-driven spin
density wave in a simple metal. In particular, motivated by recent experiments
on vanadium-doped chromium, we study the variation of transport coefficients
with the onset of magnetism within a mean-field treatment of a model that
contains nearly nested electron and hole Fermi surfaces. We show that most
transport coefficients display a leading dependence that is linear in the
energy gap. The coefficient of the linear term, though, can be small. In
particular, we find that the Hall conductivity is essentially
unchanged, due to electron-hole compensation, as the system goes through the
quantum critical point. This conclusion extends a similar observation we made
earlier for the case of completely flat Fermi surfaces to the immediate
vicinity of the quantum critical point where nesting is present but not
perfect.Comment: 11 pages revtex, 4 figure
Correlation Induced Insulator to Metal Transitions
We study a spinless two-band model at half-filling in the limit of infinite
dimensions. The ground state of this model in the non-interacting limit is a
band-insulator. We identify transitions to a metal and to a charge-Mott
insulator, using a combination of analytical, Quantum Monte Carlo, and zero
temperature recursion methods. The metallic phase is a non-Fermi liquid state
with algebraic local correlation functions with universal exponents over a
range of parameters.Comment: 12 pages, REVTE
Investigation on gas-liquid two-phase flow centrifugal pump performances for different rotational speeds
International audiencePerformance characteristics of a centrifugal pump under gas-liquid mixture are presented, using a direct coupled single-stage, single-suction centrifugal pump. Both experimental and numerical simulations comparison are carried out, for three different rotational speeds and different inlet gas volume fractions, the results of which are presented, based on dimensionless coefficients from similarity laws. The numerical results show that good agreement is obtained with experimental data at nominal rotational speed for several flow coefficients. It is found that the running of the pump is near the sudden break down of the present pump when the inlet void fraction is below 7%. However, numerical results are less sensitive to rotational speed effects compared with experiment ones; the influence of decreasing rotational speed on pump performances is more and more pronounced when inlet gas void fraction increases and flow coefficient decreases. Froude number effects are taken into account in order to explain part of these differences
Global Phase Diagram of the Kondo Lattice: From Heavy Fermion Metals to Kondo Insulators
We discuss the general theoretical arguments advanced earlier for the T=0
global phase diagram of antiferromagnetic Kondo lattice systems, distinguishing
between the established and the conjectured. In addition to the well-known
phase of a paramagnetic metal with a "large" Fermi surface (P_L), there is also
an antiferromagnetic phase with a "small" Fermi surface (AF_S). We provide the
details of the derivation of a quantum non-linear sigma-model (QNLsM)
representation of the Kondo lattice Hamiltonian, which leads to an effective
field theory containing both low-energy fermions in the vicinity of a Fermi
surface and low-energy bosons near zero momentum. An asymptotically exact
analysis of this effective field theory is made possible through the
development of a renormalization group procedure for mixed fermion-boson
systems. Considerations on how to connect the AF_S and P_L phases lead to a
global phase diagram, which not only puts into perspective the theory of local
quantum criticality for antiferromagnetic heavy fermion metals, but also
provides the basis to understand the surprising recent experiments in
chemically-doped as well as pressurized YbRh2Si2. We point out that the AF_S
phase still occurs for the case of an equal number of spin-1/2 local moments
and conduction electrons. This observation raises the prospect for a global
phase diagram of heavy fermion systems in the Kondo-insulator regime. Finally,
we discuss the connection between the Kondo breakdown physics discussed here
for the Kondo lattice systems and the non-Fermi liquid behavior recently
studied from a holographic perspective.Comment: (v3) leftover typos corrected. (v2) Published version. 32 pages, 4
figures. Section 7, on the connection between the Kondo lattice systems and
the holographic models of non-Fermi liquid, is expanded. (v1) special issue
of JLTP on quantum criticalit
Kondo Insulator to Semimetal Transformation Tuned by Spin-Orbit Coupling
Recent theoretical studies of topologically nontrivial electronic states in
Kondo insulators have pointed to the importance of spin-orbit coupling (SOC)
for stabilizing these states. However, systematic experimental studies that
tune the SOC parameter in Kondo insulators remain elusive.
The main reason is that variations of (chemical) pressure or doping strongly
influence the Kondo coupling and the chemical potential --
both essential parameters determining the ground state of the material -- and
thus possible tuning effects have remained unnoticed. Here
we present the successful growth of the substitution series
CeBi(PtPd) () of the archetypal
(noncentrosymmetric) Kondo insulator CeBiPt. The Pt-Pd substitution
is isostructural, isoelectronic, and isosize, and therefore likely to leave
and essentially unchanged. By contrast, the large mass
difference between the element Pt and the element Pd leads to a large
difference in , which thus is the dominating tuning
parameter in the series. Surprisingly, with increasing (decreasing
), we observe a Kondo insulator to semimetal transition,
demonstrating an unprecedented drastic influence of the SOC. The fully
substituted end compound CeBiPd shows thermodynamic signatures of a
recently predicted Weyl-Kondo semimetal.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures plus Supplemental Materia
Quantum Chemistry, Anomalous Dimensions, and the Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in Strongly Correlated Systems
We formulate a local picture of strongly correlated systems as a Feynman sum
over atomic configurations. The hopping amplitudes between these atomic
configurations are identified as the renormalization group charges, which
describe the local physics at different energy scales. For a metallic system
away from half-filling, the fixed point local Hamiltonian is a generalized
Anderson impurity model in the mixed valence regime. There are three types of
fixed points: a coherent Fermi liquid (FL) and two classes of self-similar
(scale invariant) phases which we denote incoherent metallic states (IMS). When
the transitions between the atomic configurations proceed coherently at low
energies, the system is a Fermi liquid. Incoherent transitions between the low
energy atomic configurations characterize the incoherent metallic states. The
initial conditions for the renormalization group flow are determined by the
physics at rather high energy scales. This is the domain of local quantum
chemistry. We use simple quantum chemistry estimates to specify the basin of
attraction of the IMS fixed points.Comment: 12 pages, REVTE
Spinless Two-Band Model in Infinite Dimensions
A spinless two-band model is studied in infinite dimension limit. Starting
from the atomic limit, the formal exact solution of the model is obtained by
means a perturbative treatment of the hopping and hybridisation terms. The
model is solved in closed form in high dimensions assuming no local spin
fluctuations. The non-Fermi liquid properties appearing in the metallic phase
are analysed through the behaviour of the density of states and the self-energy
near the Fermi level.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in PRB-Breif Repor
Non-Fermi Liquids in the Extended Hubbard Model
I summarize recent work on non-Fermi liquids within certain generalized
Anderson impurity model as well as in the large dimensionality () limit of
the two-band extended Hubbard model. The competition between local charge and
spin fluctuations leads either to a Fermi liquid with renormalized
quasiparticle excitations, or to non-Fermi liquids with spin-charge separation.
These results provide new insights into the phenomenological similarities and
differences between different correlated metals. While presenting these
results, I outline a general strategy of local approach to non-Fermi liquids in
correlated electron systems.Comment: 30 pages, REVTEX, 14 figures included. To appear in ``Non Fermi
Liquid Physics'', J. Phys: Cond. Matt. (1997
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