Impurity effects in interacting quantum many-body systems

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dc.contributor.advisorSi, Qimiao
dc.creatorSun, Jun
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:28:59Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:28:59Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractImpurities have a wide range of effects in interacting quantum many-body systems. They can interplay with interactions and lead to new electronic states of matter. They can also serve as a probe of an "intrinsic" many-body system. In this thesis, we consider the effects of impurities in three quantum many-body systems. First, we study the transport properties of a two-dimensional interacting electronic system with dilute quenched disorder. We find that the ground state is in fact a metallic state and in-plane magnetic-field can drive it to an insulating one. Second, we address the orthogonality catastrophe in Bose-Einstein condensate with a local impurity at its center. It is shown that the orthogonality effect in a Bose system has a stretched-exponential form, stronger than the algebraic orthogonality of a Fermi counterpart. The corresponding absorption spectrum is also determined. Finally, we analyze the effects of a spin resonance mode on the scattering tunneling microscopy(STM) spectra of a d-wave superconductor near a potential scattering center. We identify a counterintuitive two-unit-cell spatial modulation, at o ≃ +/-(Delta0 + O0)/h, where Delta 0 is the energy gap and O0 is the resonance mode energy. This effect can be tested by the Fourier-transformed STM technique.
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS PHYS. 2005 SUN
dc.identifier.citationSun, Jun. "Impurity effects in interacting quantum many-body systems." (2004) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18819">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18819</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/18819
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectPhysics
dc.subjectElectromagnetics
dc.subjectCondensed matter physics
dc.subjectAtomic physics
dc.titleImpurity effects in interacting quantum many-body systems
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thesis.degree.departmentPhysics
thesis.degree.disciplineNatural Sciences
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
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