Doctoral Dissertations

Magnetic and superconducting quantum critical behavior of itinerant electronic systems

Keywords and Phrases

Quantum phase transitions; Itinerant electrons

Abstract

"Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature as a function of some non-thermal parameter, e.g., pressure or chemical composition. In addition to being of fundamental interest, quantum phase transitions are important because they are believed to underlie a number of interesting low temperature phenomena. Quantum phase transitions differ from the classical phase transitions in many important aspects, two of them being (i) the mode-coupling effects and (ii) the behavior in the presence of disorder. We devote two projects of this dissertation to each of the two."--Abstract, page iv.

Department(s)

Physics

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Physics

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Spring 2004

Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation

  • Quantum phase transition of itinerant helimagnets
  • Order parameter symmetry and mode coupling effects at dirty superconducting quantum phase transitions
  • Smeared phase transition in a three-dimensional Ising model with planar defects: Monte-Carlo simulations
  • Exotic vs. conventional scaling and universality in a disordered bilayer quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Pagination

xi, 123 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-48).

Rights

© 2004 Rastko Sknepnek, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Citation

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Order-disorder models

Thesis Number

T 8476

Print OCLC #

56729278

Link to Catalog Record

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http://merlin.lib.umsystem.edu/record=b5135340~S5

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