Transport in non-Fermi liquids
Theory Winter School National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee
Subir Sachdev January 12, 2018
Talk online: sachdev.physics.harvard.edu
HARVARD Quantum matter without quasiparticles Strange metal Entangled electrons lead to “strange” SM temperature dependence of resistivity and FL other properties
p (hole/Cu) Figure: K. Fujita and J. C. Seamus Davis Resistivity Quantum matter without quasiparticles ⇢ + AT ↵ ⇠ 0 T BaFe2(As1-xPx)2 0 Strange TSDW
Metal Tc ! ⇢ T " ⇠ 2 ⇢ h/e 2.0
AF 1.0 +nematicSDW Superconductivity 0
S. Kasahara, T. Shibauchi, K. Hashimoto, K. Ikada, S. Tonegawa, R. Okazaki, H. Shishido, H. Ikeda, H. Takeya, K. Hirata, T. Terashima, and Y. Matsuda, PRB 81, 184519 (2010) Ubiquitous “Strange”,
“Bad”,
or “Incoherent”,
metal has a resistivity, ⇢, which obeys
⇢ T , ⇠ and
in some cases ⇢ h/e2 (in two dimensions), where h/e2 is the quantum unit of resistance. Strange metals just got stranger… B-linear magnetoresistance!?
Ba-122 LSCO
I. M. Hayes et. al., Nat. Phys. 2016
P. Giraldo-Gallo et. al., arXiv:1705.05806 Strange metals just got stranger… Scaling between B and T !?
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I. M. Hayes et. al., Nat. Phys. 2016 Fermi surface coupled to a gauge field
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2 ( i~a) 1 2 [ ,a]= † @ ia r µ + ( ~a) L ⌧ ⌧ 2m 2g2 r⇥ ✓ ◆ Fermi surface coupled to a gauge field
[ ,a]= L ± 2 2 +† @⌧ i@x @y + + † @⌧ + i@x @y 1 2 a +† + † + (@ya) 2g2
⇣ M. A. Metlitski and⌘ S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. B 82, 075127 (2010) Fermi surface coupled to a gauge field
One loop photon self-energy with Nf fermion flavors:
d2k d⌦ 1 ⌃ (~q, !)=Nf (a) 4⇡2 2⇡ [ i(⌦ + !)+k + q +(k + q )2] i⌦ k + k2 Z x x y y x y Nf ! = | | Landau-damping⇥ ⇤ 4⇡ q (a) | y| (b)
Electron self-energy at order 1/Nf :
2 ~ 1 d q d! 1 (b) ⌃(k, ⌦) = 2 Nf 4⇡ 2⇡ q2 ! Z [ i(! +⌦)+k + q +(k + q )2] y + | | x x y y g2 q " | y|# 2 g2 2/3 = i sgn(⌦) ⌦ 2/3 No p3N 4⇡ | | f ✓ ◆ quasiparticles Breakdown of quasiparticles requires strong coupling to a low energy col- • lective mode In all known cases, we can write down the singular processes in terms of a • continuum field theory of the fermions near the Fermi surface coupled to the collective mode.
In all known cases, the continuum critical theory has a conserved total • (pseudo-) momentum, P~ , which commutes with the Hamiltonian. This momentum may not be equal to the crystal momentum of the underlying lattice model. ~ As long as J,~ P~ =0(whereJ is the electrical current) the d.c. resistivity of • the critical theory6 is exactly zero. This is the case even though the electron self energy can be highly singular and there are no fermionic quasiparticles (many well-known papers on non-Fermi liquid transport ignore this point.) We need to include additional (dangerously) irrelevant umklapp correc- • tions to obtain a non-zero resistivity. Because these additional corrections are irrelevant, it is di cult to see how they can induce a linear-in-T resis- tivity. Breakdown of quasiparticles requires strong coupling to a low energy col- • lective mode In all known cases, we can write down the singular processes in terms of a • continuum field theory of the fermions near the Fermi surface coupled to the collective mode.
In all known cases, the continuum critical theory has a conserved total • (pseudo-) momentum, P~ , which commutes with the Hamiltonian. This momentum may not be equal to the crystal momentum of the underlying lattice model. ~ As long as J,~ P~ =0(whereJ is the electrical current) the d.c. resistivity of • the critical theory6 is exactly zero. This is the case even though the electron self energy can be highly singular and there are no fermionic quasiparticles (many well-known papers on non-Fermi liquid transport ignore this point.) We need to include additional (dangerously) irrelevant umklapp correc- • tions to obtain a non-zero resistivity. Because these additional corrections are irrelevant, it is di cult to see how they can induce a linear-in-T resis- tivity. Theories of metallic states without quasiparticles in the presence of disorder Well-known perturbative theory of disordered met- • als has 2 classes of known fixed points, the insulator at strong disorder, and the metal at weak disorder. The latter state has long-lived, extended quasiparti- cle excitations (which are not plane waves). Needed: a metallic fixed point at intermedi- • ate disorder and strong interactions without quasiparticle excitations. Although disorder is present, it largely self-averages at long scales. SYK models • Theories of metallic states without quasiparticles in the presence of disorder Well-known perturbative theory of disordered met- • als has 2 classes of known fixed points, the insulator at strong disorder, and the metal at weak disorder. The latter state has long-lived, extended quasiparti- cle excitations (which are not plane waves). Needed: a metallic fixed point at intermedi- • ate disorder and strong interactions without quasiparticle excitations. Although disorder is present, it largely self-averages at long scales.
SYK models • A strongly correlated metal built from Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models
Xue-Yang Song,1, 2 Chao-Ming Jian,2, 3 and Leon Balents2 1International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China 2Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA 3Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, California 93106-6105, USA (Dated: May 8, 2017)
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