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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Theory of angle-dependent marginal Fermi liquid self-energy and its existence at all dopings in cuprates

Sujay Ray, Tanmoy Das

Published May 30, 2019• 5 citations
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Abstract

Various angle-dependent measurements in hole-doped cuprates suggested that non-Fermi liquid (NFL) and Fermi-liquid (FL) self-energies coexist in the Brillouin zone. Moreover, it is also found that NFL self-energies survive up to the overdoped region where the resistivity features a global FL-behavior. To address this problem, we compute the momentum dependent self-energy from a single band Hubbard model. The self-energy is calculated self-consistently by using a momentum-dependent density-fluctuation (MRDF) method. One of our main results is that the computed self-energy exhibits a marginal-FL (MFL)-like frequency dependence only in the antinodal region, and FL-like behavior elsewhere at all dopings. The MFL self-energy stems from the fluctuations between the itinerant and localized densities-a result that appears when self-energy is calculated self-consistently and features an intermediate coupling behavior of cuprates. We also calculate the DC conductivity by including the full momentum dependent self-energy. We find that the resistivity-temperature exponent n becomes 1 near the optimal doping, while the MFL self-energy occupies largest momentum-space volume. Surprisingly, even in the NFL state near the optimal doping, the nodal region contains FL-like self-energies; while in the under- and over-dopings ([Formula: see text]), the antinodal region remains NFL-like. These results highlight the non-local correlation physics in cuprates and in other similar intermediately correlated materials, where a direct link between the microscopic single-particle spectral properties and the macroscopic transport behavior can not be well established.

DOI
10.1088/1361-648x/ab25b8

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The anomalous strange metal phase found in high-T c cuprates does not follow the conventional condensed-matter principles enshrined in the Fermi liquid and presents a great challenge for theory.Highly precise experimental determination of the electronic self-energy can provide a test bed for theoretical models of strange metals, and angle-resolved photoemission can provide this as a function of frequency, momentum, temperature and doping.Here we show that constant energy cuts through the nodal spectral function in (Pb,Bi) 2 Sr 2-x La x CuO 6+δ have a non-Lorentzian lineshape, consistent with a selfenergy that is k dependent.This provides a new test for aspiring theories.Here we show that the experimental data are captured remarkably well by a power law with a k-dependent scaling exponent smoothly evolving with doping, a description that emerges naturally from anti-de Sitter/conformal-field-theory based semi-holography.This puts a spotlight on holographic methods for the quantitative modelling of strongly interacting quantum materials like the cuprate strange metals.The rich temperature versus doping diagram of the cuprate high-T c superconductors presents a cornucopia of non-conformity 1 .The superconductivity does not follow BCS theory anywhere in the phase diagram 2,3 , and in their normal state these unusual metals display qualitatively different experimental behaviour compared to the Fermi liquid, with the linear-in-T resistivity and quadratic-in-T Hall angle being among the most strange.One intriguing possible explanation of strange metal phenomenology is that it is controlled by a strongly interacting quantum critical phase.If so, the question follows whether their properties can be