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Translationally Invariant Non-Fermi-Liquid Metals with Critical Fermi Surfaces: Solvable Models

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Debanjan Chowdhury
Yochai Werman
Erez Berg
T. Senthil

Abstract

We construct examples of translationally invariant solvable models of strongly correlated metals, composed of lattices of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev dots with identical local interactions. These models display crossovers as a function of temperature into regimes with local quantum criticality and marginal-Fermi-liquid behavior. In the marginal-Fermi-liquid regime, the dc resistivity increases linearly with temperature over a broad range of temperatures. By generalizing the form of interactions, we also construct examples of non-Fermi liquids with critical Fermi surfaces. The self-energy has a singular frequency dependence but lacks momentum dependence, reminiscent of a dynamical mean-field-theory-like behavior but in dimensions d<∞. In the low-temperature and strong-coupling limit, a heavy Fermi liquid is formed. The critical Fermi surface in the non-Fermi-liquid regime gives rise to quantum oscillations in the magnetization as a function of an external magnetic field in the absence of quasiparticle excitations. We discuss the implications of these results for local quantum criticality and for fundamental bounds on relaxation rates. Drawing on the lessons from these models, we formulate conjectures on coarse-grained descriptions of a class of intermediate-scale non-Fermi-liquid behavior in generic correlated metals. © 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review X

Volume

8

Issue

3

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051092186&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevX.8.031024&partnerID=40&md5=b0588b555e8a2d6c89068c8181ad4713

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031024

Group (Lab)

Debanjan Chowdhury Group

Funding Source

PHY-1125915
PHY-1607611
DE-SC0008739
GBMF-4303

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