Phase transitions of a quasi-one-dimensional Fermi gas are studied by the use of the renormalization group method for the fermion system without the bosonization. Intrachain backward and forward scatterings, pair electron hopping between different chains and exchange scattering of electrons in different chains are taken account of. Pair electron hopping gives rise to the singlet and triplet superconductor phase transitions. Electron exchange scattering gives rise to the spin density wave and charge density wave transitions. Calculation is made by the use of the one-dimensional dispersion. Following Menyhárd's method (Ref. 1) for the model with interchain backward scattering only, the change of the fluctuation from the one-dimensional region to the three-dimensional region is described. The transition temperatures are given by the bare couplings at high temperatures.
We numerically study a U(1)-lattice-gauge system, which is an effective model of the Ginzburg-Landau-type obtained from the t-J model of electrons. The model, which we call the ``GL'' model for short, is composed of link variables interpreted as a nearest-neighbor hole-pair field bounded by the singlet spin pairs. We concentrate our attention on the weakly three-dimensional case in which the electron hopping in the third direction is suppressed compared to other directions. When we simulate the model on an
L3 lattice, we therefore actually treat a system of L loosely coupled layers each of which is of size
L2. Monte Carlo simulations are done on
123,
203, and
303 lattices with the electron density slightly less than the half-filled one (the doping parameter \ensuremath{\delta} is mostly 0.06) and with the ratio of the interlayer-to-intralayer hopping parameter ranging between 0.1 and 0.9. We observe cusplike behavior of the specific heat, which indicates a phase transition due to the spontaneous breaking of a global symmetry of the GL model. An average link variable in one direction within the layers turns out to serve as a nice order parameter of the transition. The transition temperature
Tc decreases as the interlayer hopping of the electrons increases. Results on some expectation values, which indicate strong correlations between link variables below
Tc, are also presented.
By relaxing the conventional assumption of the equal one-electron hopping amplitude, we modify the one-dimensional half-filled Penson-Kolb (PK) model to obey the density-dependent hopping (DDH). For positive small modulation parameter [Formula: see text] and pair hopping [Formula: see text], we use bosonization and renormalization-group analysis to determine the ground state phase diagram. In the attractive case([Formula: see text]), the existence of the DDH leads to a gap transition in the spin sector and produces a fully gapless phase where a Luttinger liquid metal phase with dominant triplet superconducting correlations is realized for [Formula: see text], with the charge transition point [Formula: see text] and the spin transition point [Formula: see text]. Besides, there is a Luther-Emery matal phase with dominant singlet-superconducting correlations for [Formula: see text] and a Haldane insulator phase characterized by dominant bond-spin-density-wave correlations for [Formula: see text] in the repulsive regime ([Formula: see text]).