English

Non-Fermi liquid behaviour and superconductivity in the dissipative model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-08-31 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We study an exactly-solvable model which shows a zero-temperature transition from a non-Fermi liquid to a Fermi liquid as a function of particle density. The quantum critical point separating these two states is not associated with the usual ordering transition of a bosonic degree of freedom. We analyze the properties of this critical point in terms of an effective density of states, and we use this concept to generalize this transition to a class of related quantum critical points. We study the superconducting instability of the low-density (non-Fermi liquid) regime and we show that it has an enhanced pair susceptibility relative to the Fermi liquid. We comment on the applicability of our results to low-carrier density superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103191,
  title  = {Non-Fermi liquid behaviour and superconductivity in the dissipative model},
  author = {P. C. Howell and A. J. Schofield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103191},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to PRL

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