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We study in this paper the properties of a gas of fermions interacting {em via} a scalar potential $v(q)=4pi{e}^2/q^2$ for $q<Lambda<<k_F$ at dimensions larger than one, where $Lambda$ is a high momentum cutoff and $k_F$ is the fermi wave vector. In particular, we shall consider the $e^2toinfty$ limit where the potential becomes confining. Within a bosonization approximation, effective Hamiltonians describing the low energy physics of the system are constructed, where we show that the system can be described as a fermi liquid formed by chargeless quasi-particles which has vanishing wavefunction overlap with the bare fermions in the system.
This review is a summary of my work (partially in collaboration with Kurt Schoenhammer) on higher-dimensional bosonization during the years 1994-1996. It has been published as a book entitled Bosonization of interacting fermions in arbitrary dimensions by Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Physics m48, Springer, Berlin, 1997). I have NOT revised this review, so that there is no reference to the literature after 1996. However, the basic ideas underlying the functional bosonization approach outlined in this review are still valid today.
In this thesis, we study the breakdown of the Fermi liquid state in cuprate superconductors using the renormalization group (RG). We seek to extend earlier work on the crossover from the Fermi liquid state to the pseudo gap phase based on RG flows in the so-called saddle point regime. Progress in the derivation of effective models for the conjectured spin liquid state has been hindered, by the difficulties involved in solving the strong coupling low energy Hamiltonian. We tackle the problem by introducing an orthogonal wave packet basis, the so-called Wilson-Wannier (WW) basis, that can be used to interpolate between the momentum space and the real space descriptions. We show how to combine the WW basis with the RG, such that the RG is used to eliminate high-energy degrees of freedom, and the remaining strongly correlated system is solved approximately in the WW basis. We exemplify the approach for different one-dimensional model systems, and find good qualitative agreement with exact solutions even for very simple approximations. Finally, we reinvestigate the saddle point regime of the two-dimensional Hubbard model. We show that the anti-nodal states are driven to an insulating spin-liquid state with strong singlet pairing correlations, thus corroborating earlier conjectures.
We propose a Real-Space Gutzwiller variational approach and apply it to a system of repulsively interacting ultracold fermions with spin 1/2 trapped in an optical lattice with a harmonic confinement. Using the Real-Space Gutzwiller variational approach, we find that in system with balanced spin-mixtures on a square lattice, antiferromagnetism either appears in a checkerboard pattern or forms a ring and antiferromagnetic order is stable in the regions where the particle density is close to one, which is consistent with the recent results obtained by the Real-Space Dynamical Mean-field Theory approach. We also investigate the imbalanced case and find that antiferromagnetic order is suppressed there.
We study the nature of many-body eigenstates of a system of interacting chiral spinless fermions on a ring. We find a coexistence of fermionic and bosonic types of eigenstates in parts of the many-body spectrum. Some bosonic eigenstates, native to the strong interaction limit, persist at intermediate and weak couplings, enabling persistent density oscillations in the system, despite it being far from integrability.
We propose the use of an orthogonal wave packet basis to analyze the low-energy physics of interacting electron systems with short range order. We give an introduction to wave packets and the related phase space representation of fermion systems, and show that they lend themselves to an efficient description of short range order. We illustrate the approach within an RG calculation for the one-dimensional Hubbard chain.