Contributions to the Theory of Quantum Liquids.

Philippe Nozières, David Pines

Dermot Coffey, Kevin S. Bedell

We calculate the entropy of a two-dimensional Fermi liquid using a model with a contact interaction between fermions. We find that there are ${\mathit{T}}^{2}$ contributions to the entropy from interactions separate from those due to the collective modes. These ${\mathit{T}}^{2}$ contributions arise fron nonanalytic corrections to the real part of the self-energy which may be calculated from the leading-log dependence of the imaginary part of the self-energy through the Kramers-Kronig relation. We find no evidence of a breakdown in Fermi liquid theory in 2D and conclude that Fermi liquids in 2D are similar to 3D Fermi liquids.

Andrey V. Chubukov, Dmitrii L. Maslov

We discuss an interplay between the Fermi-liquid (FL) theory and diagrammatic perturbative approach to interacting Fermi systems. In the FL theory for Galilean-invariant systems, mass renormalization ${m}^{\ensuremath{\ast}}/m$ comes exclusively from fermions at the Fermi surface. We show that in a diagrammatic perturbation theory the same result for ${m}^{\ensuremath{\ast}}/m$ comes from fermions both at and away from the Fermi surface. The equivalence of the FL and perturbative approaches is based on a particular relation between self-energy contributions from high- and low-energy fermions. We argue that care has to be exercised in the renormalization-group approach to a FL in order not to miss the high-energy contribution to ${m}^{\ensuremath{\ast}}/m$. As particular examples, we discuss ${m}^{\ensuremath{\ast}}/m$ and the quasiparticle residue $Z$ for two-dimensional and three-dimensional systems with both SU(2) and $\text{SU}(N)$ symmetries, and with a short-range interaction. We derive an expression for the anisotropic part of the Fermi-liquid vertex in the large-$N$ limit of the $\text{SU}(N)$ case.

David Pines, Philippe Nozières

David Pines

Jingyuan Chen

Berry phase plays an important role in many non-trivial phenomena over a broad range of many-body systems. In this thesis we focus on the Berry phase due to the change of the particles' momenta, and study its effects in free and interacting fermionic systems. We start with reviewing the semi-classical kinetic theory with Berry phase for a non-interacting ensemble of fermions -- a Berry Fermi gas -- which might be far-from-equilibrium. We particularly review the famous Berry phase contribution to the anomalous Hall current. We then provide a concrete and general path integral derivation for the semi-classical theory. Then we turn to the specific example of Weyl fermion, which exhibits the profound quantum phenomenon of chiral anomaly; we review how this quantum effect, and its closely related chiral magnetic effect and chiral vortical effect, arise from Berry phase in the semi-classical kinetic theory. We also discuss how Lorentz symmetry in the kinetic theory of Weyl fermion, seemly violated by the Berry phase term, is realized non-trivially; we provide a physical interpretation for this non-trivial realization, and discuss its mathematical foundation in Wigner translation. Next, we turn towards interacting fermionic systems. We consider Fermi liquid near equilibrium, and propose the Berry Fermi liquid theory -- the extension to Landau Fermi liquid theory incorporating Berry phase (and other) effects. In our proposed Berry Fermi liquid theory, we can show the Berry phase is a Fermi surface property, qualitatively unmodified by interactions. But there also arise new effects from interactions, most notably the emergent electric dipole moment which contributes to the anomalous Hall current in addition to the usual Berry phase contribution. We prove our proposed Berry Fermi liquid theory from quantum field theory to all orders in Feynman diagram expansion under very general assumptions.