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arXiv:2605.28761

Avoided Stoner instability at a single ordinary Van Hove point

I. S. Tupitsyn, B. Currie, Andrey V. Chubukov, Boris V. Svistunov, Evgeny Kozik, Nikolay V. Prokof'ev

Published May 27, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

When the Fermi surface and the Brillouin zone boundary touch at a Van Hove point, mean-field analysis predicts a ferromagnetic (Stoner) instability at finite $T_{MF}$ for any coupling strength due to the divergent density of states. However, the predicted effect has not been observed experimentally. Several qualitative theoretical proposals have been put forward to explain why the mean-field prediction fails. Based on numerically exact results for the two-dimensional Hubbard model with an ordinary Van Hove singularity, we uncover the mechanisms behind the suppression of the ferromagnetic instability. We employ two diagrammatic Monte Carlo approaches: (i) the four-channel self-consistent approximation and (ii) numerically exact method of combinatorial summation of diagrams with controlled resummation of the truncated expansion. We find that the system avoids the Stoner instability down to temperatures an order of magnitude below $T_{MF}$ due to the combination of the downward renormalization of the effective coupling and the suppression of the density of states by the loss of the quasiparticle residue.

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10.48550/arxiv.2605.28761

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We investigate the possibility of ferromagnetic ordering in the nondegenerate Hubbard model on the face-centered cubic lattice within the functional renormalization group technique using temperature as a scale parameter. We assume the relations between nearest, next-nearest, and next-next-nearest hopping parameters providing higher-order (giant) van Hove singularity of the density of states. The ferromagnetic instability formation with lowering temperature is described consistently in the one-loop approximation for a one-particle irreducible vertex of two-particle electron interaction. The chemical potential versus temperature phase diagrams are calculated. We find ferromagnetic order only for sufficiently strong divergence of the density of states and fillings in the vicinity of van Hove singularity. The obtained Curie temperature is more than an order of magnitude smaller than the results of the random-phase approximation. The main origin of the suppression of ferromagnetism is the screening of interaction in the particle-particle channel. We also do not find the pronounced tendency towards incommensurate order when the Fermi level is moved away from a van Hove singularity, such that the first-order quantum phase transitions from the ferro- to paramagnetic phase are obtained.
The $t\ensuremath{-}{t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ Hubbard model for the Fermi level near the van Hove singularity is considered within the renormalization group and parquet approaches. Interplay of ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and superconducting channels is investigated, and the phase diagram of the model is constructed. In comparison with previous approaches, the account of ferromagnetic fluctuations suppresses superconducting pairing and, vice versa, the influence of the Cooper channel decreases the Curie temperature, so that the Stoner criterion is inapplicable even qualitatively.
Stoner instabilities for fermions with repulsive interaction have been well studied within the mean-field (ladder) approximation. In this study, we consider two-dimensional electronic systems with one or two valleys and discuss a Stoner transition beyond the ladder approximation. At weak coupling, the corrections to the ladder approximation come predominantly from the renormalization of the particle-hole vertex in the particle-particle channel, and the lowest-order corrections are logarithmically singular in the low-density limit. To investigate the problem beyond the lowest order, we apply the diagrammatic Monte Carlo algorithm and treat ladder and non-ladder renormalizations on equal footing. We find that in a one-valley system, a Stoner transition to a ferromagnetism occurs at low density only if there is a cutoff on the momentum transfer carried by the interaction. In a two-valley system, the restriction is less severe. Here we find either a direct Stoner transition into a spin- and valley-polarized state, or a set of two Stoner transitions via an intermediate valley-polarized state. The pathway is controlled by the anisotropy of the fermionic dispersion.
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