We study an extended Hubbard model in the limit of infinite dimensions and its zero-dimensional counterpart, a generalized asymmetric Anderson model. In the impurity model we find three kinds of mixed valence states: (a) the usual strong-coupling state in which a resonance forms at the Fermi level; (b) a weak-coupling state in which neither the impurity spin nor the impurity charge degrees of freedom are quenched; and (c) an intermediate-coupling state where the spin but not the charge degree of freedom is quenched. The corresponding phases of the extended Hubbard model in infinite dimensions are (a) a Fermi liquid; (b) a non-Fermi-liquid state with incoherent charge and spin excitations; and (c) a non-Fermi-liquid state with incoherent charge but coherent spin excitations. The non-Fermi-liquid phases are incoherent metallic states with vanishing quasiparticle residue, self-similar local correlation functions, and asymptotically decoupled charge and spin excitations. The non-Fermi-liquid phases occur for a wide range of parameters.
We investigate models of electrons in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev class with random and all-to-all electron hopping, electron spin exchange, and Cooper-pair hopping. An attractive on-site interaction between electrons leads to superconductivity at low temperatures. Depending on the relative strengths of the hopping and spin exchange, the normal state at the critical temperature is either a Fermi-liquid or a non-Fermi liquid. We present a large-
M [where spin symmetry is enlarged to
SU(M)] study of the normal state to superconductor phase transition. We describe the transition temperature, the superconducting order parameter, and the electron spectral functions. We contrast between Fermi liquid and non-Fermi liquid normal states: we find that for weaker attractive on-site interaction there is a relative enhancement of
Tc when the normal state is a non-Fermi liquid, and correspondingly a strong deviation from BCS limit. Also, the phase transition in this case becomes a first-order transition for strong non-Fermi liquids. On the other hand, for stronger on-site interaction, there is no appreciable difference in
Tc between whether the superconductivity emerges from a Fermi liquid or a non-Fermi liquid. Notable features of superconductivity emerging from a non-Fermi liquid are that the superconducting electron spectral function is different from the Fermi-liquid case, with additional peaks at higher energies, and there is no Hebel-Slichter peak in the NMR relaxation rate in the non-Fermi liquid case.
The effects of vertex corrections on the charge and spin responses of the Fermi liquid are considered. It is shown that the interaction in the particle - hole channel induces virtual pair excitations (Cooper pair like) in both the charge and the spin channels. It leads to the appearance of an anomalous Fermi-liquid term in both the charge and the spin responses of the Fermi liquid in addition to the normal response . Such a contribution of the anomalous term to the charge and spin responses is in agreement with the marginal Fermi-liquid hypothesis proposed by Varma et al to explain the universal anomalies in the normal state of cuprate high- superconductors.