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arXiv:1202.4023 · Physical Review B

Fermi surface reconstruction in hole-doped t−J models without long-range antiferromagnetic order

Matthias Punk, Subir Sachdev A

Published May 11, 2012• 43 citations
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Abstract

We calculate the Fermi surface of electrons in hole-doped, extended $t$-$J$ models on a square lattice in a regime where no long-range antiferromagnetic order is present, and no symmetries are broken. Using the ``spinon-dopon'' formalism of Ribeiro and Wen, we show that short-range antiferromagnetic correlations lead to a reconstruction of the Fermi surface into hole pockets which are not necessarily centered at the antiferromagnetic Brillouin zone boundary. The Brillouin zone area enclosed by the Fermi surface is proportional to the density of dopants away from half-filling, in contrast to the conventional Luttinger theorem, which counts the total electron density. This state realizes a ``fractionalized Fermi liquid'' (FL*), which has been proposed as a possible ground state of the underdoped cuprates; we note connections to recent experiments. We also discuss the quantum phase transition from the FL* state to the Fermi liquid state with long-range antiferromagnetic order.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.85.195123

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We calculate the Fermi surface of electrons in hole-doped, extended ttt-JJJ models on a square lattice in a regime where no long-range antiferromagnetic order is present, and no symmetries are broken. Using the spinon-dopon'' formalism of Ribeiro and Wen, we show that short-range antiferromagnetic correlations lead to a reconstruction of the Fermi surface into hole pockets which are not necessarily centered at the antiferromagnetic Brillouin zone boundary. The Brillouin zone area enclosed by the Fermi surface is proportional to the density of dopants away from half-filling, in contrast to the conventional Luttinger theorem, which counts the total electron density. This state realizes a fractionalized Fermi liquid'' (FL*), which has been proposed as a possible ground state of the underdoped cuprates; we note connections to recent experiments. We also discuss the quantum phase transition from the FL* state to the Fermi liquid state with long-range antiferromagnetic order.
We model the underdoped cuprates using fermions moving in a background with local antiferromagnetic order. The antiferromagnetic order fluctuates in orientation, but not in magnitude, so that there is no long-range antiferromagnetism, but a ``topological'' order survives. The normal state is described as a fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*), with electronlike quasiparticles coupled to the fractionalized excitations of the fluctuating antiferromagnet. The electronic quasiparticles reside near pocket Fermi surfaces enclosing total area xxx (the dopant density), centered away from the magnetic Brillouin zone boundary. The violation of the conventional Luttinger theorem is linked to a ``species doubling'' of these quasiparticles. We describe phenomenological theories of the pairing of these quasiparticles, and show that a large class of mean-field theories generically displays a nodal-antinodal ``dichotomy'': The interplay of local antiferromagnetism and pairing leads to a small gap near the nodes of the ddd-wave pairing along the Brillouin zone diagonals, and a large gap in the antinodal region.
Recent experiments in the underdoped regime of the hole-doped cuprates have found evidence for an incommensurate charge density-wave state. We present an analysis of the charge ordering instabilities in a metal with antiferromagnetic correlations, where the electronic excitations are coupled to the fractionalized excitations of a quantum fluctuating antiferromagnet on the square lattice. The resulting charge density-wave state emerging out of such a fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) has wave vectors of the form $(\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}{Q}_{0},0),(0,\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}{Q}_{0})$, with a predominantly ddd-form factor, in agreement with experiments on a number of different families of the cuprates. In contrast, as previously shown, the charge density-wave instability of a nearly antiferromagnetic metal with a large Fermi surface, interacting via short-range interactions, has wave vectors of the type $(\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}{Q}_{0},\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}{Q}_{0})$. Our results show that the observed charge density-wave appears as a low-energy instability of a fractionalized metallic state linked to the proximity to an antiferromagnetic insulator, and the pseudogap regime can be described by such a metal at least over intermediate length and energy scales.
Abstract We review a theoretical framework for the cuprate superconductors, rooted in a fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) description of the intermediate-temperature pseudogap phase at low doping. The FL* theory predicted hole pockets each of fractional area p / 8 at hole doping p , in contrast to the area p / 4 in spin density wave theory. Magnetotransport measurements, including observation of the Yamaji angle, show clear evidence of hole pocket quasiparticles which can tunnel coherently between square lattice layers, and are consistent with the FL* description. The FL* phase of a single-band model is described using a layer construction with a pair of ancilla qubits on each site: the Ancilla layer model (ALM). Its mean field theory yields hole pockets of area p / 8 , and matches the gapped photoemission spectrum in the anti-nodal region of the Brillouin zone. Fluctuations are described by the SU(2) gauge theory of a background spin liquid with critical Dirac spinons. A Monte Carlo study of the thermal SU(2) gauge theory transforms the hole pockets into Fermi arcs in photoemission. One route to confinement of FL* upon lowering temperature yields a d -wave superconductor via a Kosterlitz–Thouless transition of h / ( 2 e ) vortices, with nodal Bogoliubov quasiparticles featuring anisotropic velocities and vortices surrounded by charge order halos. An alternative route yields a charge-ordered metallic state that has quantum oscillations consistent with observations. These confinement transitions are driven by the condensation of a SU(2) fundamental Higgs field, which also provides a fractionalized description of intertwined orders. Increasing doping from the FL* phase in the ALM drives a transition to a conventional FL at large doping, passing through an intermediate strange metal regime. We formulate a theory of the FL*-FL metal-metal transition without a symmetry-breaking order parameter, using a critical quantum ‘charge’ liquid of mobile electrons in the presence of disorder, developed via an extension of the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model to two spatial dimensions. At low temperatures, and across optimal and over doping, we address the regimes of extended non-FL behavior by Griffiths effects near quantum phase transitions in disordered metals. Partly based on lectures by S S at Boulder School 2025, Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electrons , 14–18 July. Lecture videos . Joint ICTP-WE Heraeus School and Workshop on Advances in Quantum Matter: Pushing the Boundaries , ICTP, Trieste, 4, 6 August 2025. Lecture videos . School on Quantum Dynamics of Matter, Light and Information , ICTP, Trieste, 18, 19 August 2025. Lecture videos . Croucher Advanced Study Institute for Fractional Chern Insulators , University of Hong Kong, 4, 5 September 2025. Lecture slides . Advanced School and Conference on Quantum Matter , ICTP Trieste, 1–12 December 2025. Lecture Notes . Lecture videos .
In the conventional theory of density wave ordering in metals, the onset of spin density wave (SDW) order coincides with the reconstruction of the Fermi surfaces into small ``pockets.'' We present models which display this transition, while also displaying an alternative route between these phases via an intermediate phase with topological order, no broken symmetry, and pocket Fermi surfaces. The models involve coupling emergent gauge fields to a fractionalized SDW order, but retain the canonical electron operator in the underlying Hamiltonian. We establish an intimate connection between the suppression of certain defects in the SDW order and the presence of Fermi surface sizes distinct from the Luttinger value in Fermi liquids. We discuss the relevance of such models to the physics of the hole-doped cuprates near optimal doping.
A theory for the Hubbard model appropriate in the limit of large U/tU/tU/t, small doping away from half-filling and short-ranged antiferromagnetic spin correlations is presented. Despite the absence of any broken symmetry, the Fermi surface takes the form of elliptical hole pockets centered near $(\frac{\ensuremath{\pi}}{2},\frac{\ensuremath{\pi}}{2})$ with a volume proportional to the hole concentration. Short-range antiferromagnetic correlations render the nearest-neighbor hopping almost ineffective so that only second- or third-nearest-neighbor hopping contributes appreciably to the dispersion relation.