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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Renormalized Bose condensation in the presence of fermions

Joseph Wheatley

Published Jul 1, 1990• 5 citations
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Abstract

Bose condensation of a dilute charged Bose gas in contact with a dense Fermi liquid is examined. The particles have hard cores and hop on a lattice. It is argued that a ``Bose metal phase,'' i.e., a phase with vanishing condensate fraction, is unlikely to exist in this problem at zero temperature. However very strong renormalizations of the properties of the Bose system occur when the boson band is narrower than the fermion band. We find that the condensate fraction at zero temperature is suppressed by a factor 4(W/${\mathit{w}}_{\mathit{b}}$${)}^{2}$ exp(-W/${\mathit{w}}_{\mathit{b}}$) in two dimensions over Gutzwiller-type variational estimates. Here, ${\mathit{w}}_{\mathit{b}}$ and W are the boson and fermion half-band-widths, respectively. There is a similar reduction in the transition temperature. Thus the possibility that high-${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}$ superconductors are Bose metals in their normal states cannot be excluded on the basis of present experimental or theoretical evidence.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.42.946

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