Strongly coupled quantum criticality with a Fermi surface in two dimensions: fractionalization of spin and charge collective modes
Strongly coupled quantum criticality with a Fermi surface in two dimensions: fractionalization of spin and charge collective modes
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二维费米表面强耦合量子临界:自旋和电荷集体模式的细分
DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.66.235117
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
T. Morinari
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作者:
S. Sachdev;T. Morinari
We describe two-dimensional models with a metallic Fermi surface which display quantum phase transitions controlled by strongly interacting critical field theories below their upper critical dimension. The primary examples involve transitions with a topological order parameter associated with dislocations in collinear spin-density-wave (``stripe'') correlations: the suppression of dislocations leads to a fractionalization of spin and charge collective modes, and this transition has been proposed as a candidate for the cuprates near optimal doping. The coupling between the order parameter and long-wavelength volume and shape deformations of the Fermi surface is analyzed by the renormalization group, and a runaway flow to a nonperturbative regime is found in most cases. A phenomenological scaling analysis of simple observable properties of possible second-order quantum critical points is presented, with results quite similar to those near quantum spin-glass transitions and to phenomenological forms proposed by Schr\"oder et al. [Nature (London) $407,$ 351 (2000)].