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arXiv:1801.06178 · Physical Review X

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

Debanjan Chowdhury, Yochai Werman, Erez Berg, T. Senthil

Published Jul 25, 2018• 118 citations
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Abstract

Understanding the properties of metals beyond the Fermi liquid paradigm is one of the central challenges of condensed matter physics. New exactly solvable microscopic models of non-Fermi liquid metals offer new insights into many properties of these exotic systems.
DOI
10.1103/physrevx.8.031024

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