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arXiv:cond-mat/0311145

Cure to the Landau-Pomeranchuk and Associated Long-Wavelength Fermi-surface Instabilities on Lattices

C. M. Varma

Published Nov 6, 2003• 0 citations
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Abstract

The cure to the $\ell=1$ Landau-Pomeranchuk (L-P) instabilities in translationally invariant fermions is shown to be a state with an anisotropic gap at the fermi-surface. For higher $\ell$ and for fermions on a lattice, general criteria for long wavelength instabilities and their cure are found in terms of the derivatives of the single particle self-energy with respect to momentum for spin-symmetric instabilities and with respect to magnetic field for spin-antisymmetric instabilities. The results may be relevant to identifying hidden order parameters found in many metals.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0311145

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The cure to the ℓ=1\ell=1ℓ=1 Landau-Pomeranchuk (L-P) instabilities in translationally invariant fermions is shown to be a state with an anisotropic gap at the fermi-surface. For higher ℓ\ellℓ and for fermions on a lattice, general criteria for long wavelength instabilities and their cure are found in terms of the derivatives of the single particle self-energy with respect to momentum for spin-symmetric instabilities and with respect to magnetic field for spin-antisymmetric instabilities. The results may be relevant to identifying hidden order parameters found in many metals.
We study the effects of spin-antisymmetric interactions on the stability of a Landau–Fermi liquid on the square lattice, using the generalized Pomeranchuk method for two-dimensional lattice systems. In particular, we analyze interactions that could induce instabilities of the so-called spin-split type, that is when spin-up and spin-down Fermi surfaces are displaced with respect to each other. The phase space is studied as a function of the strength of the interaction V, the electron chemical potential μ and an external magnetic field h. We find that such interactions produce in general an enhancement of the instability region of the Landau–Fermi liquid. More interestingly, in certain regions of the V–μ phase space, we find a reentrant behavior as a function of the magnetic field h, similar to that found in recent experiments, e.g. in URu₂Si₂ and Sr₃Ru₂O₇.
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