Mottness collapse and statistical quantum criticality

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2010.0188zbMATH Open1219.82228arXiv0911.4070OpenAlexW3101463848WikidataQ51588860 ScholiaQ51588860MaRDI QIDQ3090293FDOQ3090293

Authors: B. J. Overbosch, J. Zaanen 

Publication date: 28 August 2011

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We forward here the case that the anomalous electron states found in cuprate superconductors and related systems are rooted in a deeply non-classical fermion sign structure. The collapse of Mottness as advocated by Phillips and supported by recent DCA results on the Hubbard model is setting the necessary microscopic conditions. The crucial insight is due to Weng who demonstrated that in the presence of Mottness the fundamental workings of quantum statistics changes and we will elaborate on the effects of this Weng statistics with an emphasis on characterizing these further using numerical methods. The pseudogap physics of the underdoped regime appears as a consequence of the altered statistics and the profound question is how to connect this by a continuous quantum phase transition to the overdoped regime ruled by normal Fermi-Dirac statistics. Proof of principle follows from Ceperley's constrained path integral formalism where states can be explicitly constructed showing a merger of Fermi-Dirac sign structure and scale invariance of the quantum dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4070

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum statisticsquantum phase transitionpath integral\(t-J\) modelhigh-temperature superconductivityresonating valence bond theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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