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White, C. M. (2023). Structure Revealed in Randomly Interacting Boson Ground States. Retrieved from https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/diginole/White_fsu_0071E_17734
Bosons play an important role in the study of emergent phenomena, such as the appearance of effective degrees of freedom, symmetries, and phase transitions. In this work, we use an ensemble of Hamiltonians with two-body interactions with matrix elements randomly chosen from a normal distribution, to explore the behavior of the ground states of systems of identical bosons of spin $\ell$. We especially focus on the predominance of spin 0 (or a single boson spin $\ell$) ground states for an even (or odd) number of bosons. We find that the structure of bosonic ground state wavefunctions are not random, instead preferring to be arranged into condensates of clusters.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Physics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Advisory Committee
Alexander Volya, Professor Directing Dissertation; Tomasz Plewa, University Representative; Jorge Piekarewicz, Committee Member; Ingo Wiedenhoever, Committee Member; Nicholas Bonesteel, Committee Member.
Publisher
Florida State University
Identifier
White_fsu_0071E_17734
White, C. M. (2023). Structure Revealed in Randomly Interacting Boson Ground States. Retrieved from https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/diginole/White_fsu_0071E_17734