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Two-particle self-consistent approach for broken symmetry phases

by Lorenzo Del Re

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Lorenzo Del Re
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Preprint Link: scipost_202407_00001v3  (pdf)
Date submitted: 2024-11-14 17:44
Submitted by: Del Re, Lorenzo
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Condensed Matter Physics - Theory
  • Condensed Matter Physics - Computational
Approaches: Theoretical, Computational

Abstract

Spontaneous symmetry breaking of interacting fermion systems constitutes a major challenge for many-body theory due to the proliferation of new independent scattering channels once absent or degenerate in the symmetric phase. One example is given by the ferro/antiferromagnetic broken symmetry phase (BSP) of the Hubbard model, where vertices in the spin-transverse and spin-longitudinal channels become independent with a consequent increase in the computational power for their calculation. Here we generalize the formalism of the non-perturbative Two-Particle-Self-Consistent method (TPSC) to treat broken SU(2) magnetic phases of the Hubbard model, providing with a efficient yet reliable method. We show that in the BSP, the sum-rule enforcement of susceptibilities must be accompanied by a modified gap equation resulting in a renormalisation of the order parameter, vertex corrections and the preservation of the gap-less feature of the Goldstone modes. We then apply the theory to the antiferromagnetic phase of the Hubbard model in the cubic lattice at half-filling. We compare our results of double occupancies and staggered magnetisation to the ones obtained using Diagrammatic Monte Carlo showing excellent quantitative agreement. We demonstrate how vertex corrections play a central role in lowering the Higgs resonance with respect to the quasi-particle excitation gap in the spin-longitudinal susceptibility, yielding a well visible Higgs-mode.

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Dear Editor,

Thank you for inviting new referees and providing their reports. We appreciate the referees' careful, positive, and constructive feedback, which has helped us better highlight the potential (and limitations) of the proposed method.

We have provided point-by-point responses to all referees' comments and requests, and we have added the additional data requested by Referee 2.

Given the substantial improvements made to address all comments and requests, we believe the revised version of our paper is now suitable for publication in SciPost Physics.

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We have attached the complete response to all referees, along with a diff file comparing the previous and updated versions of the manuscript, available on the dialog page for report #1.

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Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 5) on 2024-11-16 (Invited Report)

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The author answered satisfactorily to all open points by the referees and I recommend publication of the submitted revised manuscript

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