Renormalization group flow for fermionic superfluids at zero temperature

Details Renormalization group flow for fermionic superfluids at zero temperature Renormalization group flow for fermionic superfluids at zero temperature

2008-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/0804.3994v1

Phys.Rev.B78:014522,2008

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14 pages, 12 Figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.014522

We present a comprehensive analysis of quantum fluctuation effects in the superfluid ground state of an attractively interacting Fermi system, employing the attractive Hubbard model as a prototype. The superfluid order parameter, and fluctuations thereof, are implemented by a bosonic Hubbard-Stratonovich field, which splits into two components corresponding to longitudinal and transverse (Goldstone) fluctuations. Physical properties of the system are computed from a set of approximate flow equations obtained by truncating the exact functional renormalization group flow of the coupled fermion-boson action. The equations capture the influence of fluctuations on non-universal quantities such as the fermionic gap, as well as the universal infrared asymptotics present in every fermionic superfluid. We solve the flow equations numerically in two dimensions and compute the asymptotic behavior analytically in two and three dimensions. The fermionic gap \Delta is reduced significantly compared to the mean-field gap, and the bosonic order parameter \alpha, which is equivalent to \Delta in mean-field theory, is suppressed to values below \Delta by fluctuations. The fermion-boson vertex is only slightly renormalized. In the infrared regime, transverse order parameter fluctuations associated with the Goldstone mode lead to a strong renormalization of longitudinal fluctuations: the longitudinal mass and the bosonic self-interaction vanish linearly as a function of the scale in two dimensions, and logarithmically in three dimensions, in agreement with the exact behavior of an interacting Bose gas.

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