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Zhenhao Fan

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arXiv2026

Entropy engineering of BF-BT-based high-entropy ceramics for ultra-high energy storage performance

Dielectric capacitors are promising for pulsed power applications, but the energy storage performance of lead-free bulk ceramics is often limited by low breakdown strength and large ferroelectric hysteresis. Herein, a high entropy perovskite oxide BaTi0.2Zr0.2Sn0.2Hf0.2Nb0.1Sc0.1O3 was introduced into the BF-BT matrix to develop lead free high entropy ferroelectric ceramics. Multicomponent B-site substitution induces lattice distortion, enhanced pseudocubic characteristics, relaxor behavior, and grain refinement. These effects suppress polarization hysteresis and electrical conduction, resulting in a significant increase in breakdown strength. A maximum breakdown strength of 840 kV/cm1 and a recoverable energy density of 10.55 J/cm3 were achieved. Entropy-induced microstructural heterogeneity promotes a more uniform electric-field distribution and delays dielectric breakdown. This work demonstrates entropy engineering as an effective route to achieving high breakdown strength and superior energy-storage performance in lead-free ferroelectric ceramics.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2021

Modified $GW$ Method in Electronic Systems

A modified $GW$ approximation to many - body systems is developed. The approximation has the same computational complexity as the traditional $GW$ approach, but uses a different truncation scheme. This scheme neglects high order connected correlation functions. A covariant (preserving Ward identities due to charge conservation) scheme for two - body correlators is employed, which holds the relation between the charge correlator and charge susceptibility. The method is tested on the two - dimensional one - band Hubbard model. Results are compared with exact diagonalization, the fluctuation - exchange (FLEX) theory and determinantal quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) approach. The comparison for the (one - body) Green's function demonstrates that it is more precise in strong - coupling regime (especially away from half - filling) than similar - complexity approximations $GW$ or FLEX. The charge correlator is in excellent agreement with the numerically exact result obtained from DQMC.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2021

Field theoretical approach to spin models

We developed a systematic non-perturbative method base on Dyson-Schwinger theory and the $\Phi$-derivable theory for Ising model at broken phase. Based on these methods, we obtain critical temperature and spin spin correlation beyond mean field theory. The spectrum of Green function obtained from our methods become gapless at critical point, so the susceptibility become divergent at Tc. The critical temperature of Ising model obtained from this method is fairly good in comparison with other non-cluster methods. It is straightforward to extend this method to more complicate spin models for example with continue symmetry.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2019

Covariant Bethe-Salpeter approximation in strongly correlated electron systems model

Strongly correlated electron systems are generally described by tight binding lattice Hamiltonians with strong local (on site) interactions, the most popular being the Hubbard model. Although the half filled Hubbard model can be simulated by Monte Carlo(MC), physically more interesting cases beyond half filling are plagued by the sign problem. One therefore should resort to other methods. It was demonstrated recently that a systematic truncation of the set of Dyson-Schwinger equations for correlators of the Hubbard, supplemented by a \textquotedblleft covariant" calculation of correlators leads to a convergent series of approximants. The covariance preserves all the Ward identities among correlators describing various condensed matter probes. While first order (classical), second (Hartree-Fock or gaussian) and third (Cubic) covariant approximation were worked out, the fourth (quartic) seems too complicated to be effectively calculable in fermionic systems. It turns out that the complexity of the quartic calculation\ in local interaction models,is manageable computationally. The quartic (Bethe - Salpeter type) approximation is especially important in 1D and 2D models in which the symmetry broken state does not exists (the Mermin - Wagner theorem), although strong fluctuations dominate the physics at strong coupling. Unlike the lower order approximations, it respects the Mermin - Wagner theorem. The scheme is tested and exemplified on the single band 1D and 2D Hubbard model.

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