Quantum phase transition in the spin boson model

Details Quantum phase transition in the spin boson model Quantum phase transition in the spin boson model

2011-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/1106.2654v1

Lect. Notes Phys. 802, 145 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Introductory book chapter. 18 pages, 8 figures

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In this paper we give a general introduction to quantum critical phenomena, which we practically illustrate by a detailed study of the low energy properties of the spin boson model (SBM), describing the dynamics of a spin 1/2 impurity (or more generically a two-level system) coupled to a bath of independent harmonic oscillators. We show that the behavior of the model is very sensitive to the bath spectrum, in particular how the properties of the quantum critical point in the SBM are affected by the functional form of the bath Density of States (DoS). To this effect, we review the renormalization group (RG) treatment of the SBM for various bath DoS, based on an unconventional Majorana representation of the spin 1/2 degree of freedom. We also discuss the derivation of Shiba's relation for the sub-ohmic SBM, and explicitely derive an effective action vindicating the quantum to classical mapping.

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