QUANTUM MATERIALS AND DEVICES SEMINARS: Landau`s Fermi liquids in disguise

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Speaker

Michele Fabrizio, International School for Advanced Studies SISSA, Trieste, Italy

When

2021/10/27
17:00

Place

Online Seminar, Donostia International Physics Center

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Correlated metals, and sometimes even correlated insulators, often display non-Fermi liquid properties, like single-particle spectra lacking quasiparticles and very poor, or even absent, metallic charge transport, coexisting with conventional Fermi liquid behaviour of thermal properties or quantum oscillations. That Janus-faced character likely entails the existence of new paradigms of strongly interacting electrons, but, sometimes, it might simply indicate that the class of Landau`s Fermi liquids is broader and displays a richer physics than commonly believed. Here, I will show that, contrary to the common belief, coherent `quasiparticles` also emerge approaching a Luttinger surface, i.e., the location within the Brillouin zone of the zeros of the single-particle Green`s function at zero energy and temperature, just as they do approaching a Fermi surface, where the Green’s function has instead poles. That occurs despite the single-particle pseudogap at the Luttinger surface. The microscopic derivation of Landau’s Fermi liquid theory, leading to the conventional expression of the low-frequency long-wavelength linear response functions, and thus of the uniform thermodynamic susceptibilities, works for `quasiparticles`at a Luttinger surface just like it does for quasiparticles at a Fermi surface, For instance, `quasiparticles`at a Luttinger surface yield a standard linear in temperature specific heat, in striking contrast with the vanishing single-particle density of states. Remarkably, Luttinger`s theorem entails that the number of `quasiparticles` at a Luttinger surface counts the number of physical holes, while the number of quasiparticles at the Fermi surface counts the number of physical electrons. I will end discussing the surprisingly reach physical behaviour that comes out of a toy self-energy vaguely inspired by the phenomenology of underdoped cuprates, and which admits a Luttinger surface either alone or coexisting with Fermi pockets, and thus unconventional `quasiparticles` coexisting or not with conventional ones. References: M. Fabrizio, arXiv:2105.12528 M. Fabrizio, Physical Review B 102, 155122 (2020) Host: Miguel A. Cazalilla REGISTRATION REQUIRED ZOOM: https://dipc- org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqceGqrzMqE9fPWdhzaKxoIscCspVlFJ4Y