Pospiech, Martin (2019)
From Hot to Cold, from Dense to Dilute
– Renormalization Group Studies of Strongly-Interacting Matter –.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
We study the nature of strongly-interacting fermion matter by employing functional Renormalization Group (RG) techniques. In the first part of this thesis, we examine relativistic hot and dense quark matter focusing on the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with two massless quark flavors. To this end, we consider Nambu–Jona-Lasinio-type (NJL) models serving as effective low-energy descriptions of QCD. We highlight the significance of Fierz completeness in such studies, analyze the fixed-point structure, study the RG flows of the four-fermion couplings, and explore the phase structure at finite temperature and quark chemical potential where we investigate the influence of different truncations. Using a Fierz-complete four-quark basis, we then study the impact of gauge degrees of freedom on the thermal phase boundary and explore the phase structure of chiral two-flavor QCD. We find that the phase boundary is significantly altered when Fierz-incomplete ansätze are considered. Moreover, our Fierz-complete studies suggest that the dynamics at low quark chemical potential is predominantly controlled by a non-Gaussian fixed point, ensuring that the low-energy physics is governed by chiral degrees of freedom. For the regime at large quark chemical potential, we find strong indications for the formation of a chiral diquark condensate. In the second part, we study bound-state properties of non-relativistic few-fermion systems at zero temperature using a functional Renormalization Group approach to Density Functional Theory (DFT-RG). We give a short introduction to DFT and the famous Kohn-Sham (KS) equations, discuss the derivation of the DFT-RG flow equation, and study a one-dimensional nuclear model as an introductory example. To improve the precision of the truncated DFT-RG equations, we propose an improvement based on the KS equations optimizing the starting point of the RG flow. As a feasibility study for this new development, we consider a system of quasi-one-dimensional dipolar fermions confined in a harmonic trap. For up to N = 5 particles, we compute ground-state energies for various interaction strengths and let different truncations compete against each other. Within our approximation, our KS-optimized DFT-RG method performs best for attractive interaction strengths but appears to be less suited in the repulsive regime of our benchmark system. Compared to exact results, we observe that the relative deviation decreases for higher particle numbers.
Typ des Eintrags: | Dissertation | ||||
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Erschienen: | 2019 | ||||
Autor(en): | Pospiech, Martin | ||||
Art des Eintrags: | Erstveröffentlichung | ||||
Titel: | From Hot to Cold, from Dense to Dilute – Renormalization Group Studies of Strongly-Interacting Matter – | ||||
Sprache: | Englisch | ||||
Referenten: | Braun, Prof. Dr. Jens ; Roth, Prof. Dr. Robert | ||||
Publikationsjahr: | 2019 | ||||
Ort: | Darmstadt | ||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: | 11 November 2019 | ||||
URL / URN: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/9472 | ||||
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | We study the nature of strongly-interacting fermion matter by employing functional Renormalization Group (RG) techniques. In the first part of this thesis, we examine relativistic hot and dense quark matter focusing on the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with two massless quark flavors. To this end, we consider Nambu–Jona-Lasinio-type (NJL) models serving as effective low-energy descriptions of QCD. We highlight the significance of Fierz completeness in such studies, analyze the fixed-point structure, study the RG flows of the four-fermion couplings, and explore the phase structure at finite temperature and quark chemical potential where we investigate the influence of different truncations. Using a Fierz-complete four-quark basis, we then study the impact of gauge degrees of freedom on the thermal phase boundary and explore the phase structure of chiral two-flavor QCD. We find that the phase boundary is significantly altered when Fierz-incomplete ansätze are considered. Moreover, our Fierz-complete studies suggest that the dynamics at low quark chemical potential is predominantly controlled by a non-Gaussian fixed point, ensuring that the low-energy physics is governed by chiral degrees of freedom. For the regime at large quark chemical potential, we find strong indications for the formation of a chiral diquark condensate. In the second part, we study bound-state properties of non-relativistic few-fermion systems at zero temperature using a functional Renormalization Group approach to Density Functional Theory (DFT-RG). We give a short introduction to DFT and the famous Kohn-Sham (KS) equations, discuss the derivation of the DFT-RG flow equation, and study a one-dimensional nuclear model as an introductory example. To improve the precision of the truncated DFT-RG equations, we propose an improvement based on the KS equations optimizing the starting point of the RG flow. As a feasibility study for this new development, we consider a system of quasi-one-dimensional dipolar fermions confined in a harmonic trap. For up to N = 5 particles, we compute ground-state energies for various interaction strengths and let different truncations compete against each other. Within our approximation, our KS-optimized DFT-RG method performs best for attractive interaction strengths but appears to be less suited in the repulsive regime of our benchmark system. Compared to exact results, we observe that the relative deviation decreases for higher particle numbers. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-94725 | ||||
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik | ||||
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 05 Fachbereich Physik 05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Kernphysik 05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Kernphysik > Theoretische Kernphysik 05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Kernphysik > Theoretische Kernphysik > Quanten-Chromo-Dynamic 05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Kernphysik > Theoretische Kernphysik > Stark gekoppelte fermionische Systeme 05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Kernphysik > Theoretische Kernphysik > Starke Wechselwirkung und ultrakalte Atome |
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Hinterlegungsdatum: | 01 Dez 2019 20:55 | ||||
Letzte Änderung: | 01 Dez 2019 20:55 | ||||
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Referenten: | Braun, Prof. Dr. Jens ; Roth, Prof. Dr. Robert | ||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung / Verteidigung / mdl. Prüfung: | 11 November 2019 | ||||
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