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Only Fermi-Liquids are Metals

Condensed Matter 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Any singular deviation from Landau Fermi-liquid theory appears to lead, for arbitrarily small concentration of impurities coupling to a non-conserved quantity, to a vanishing density of states at the chemical potential and infinite resistivity as temperature approaches zero. Applications to copper-oxide metals including the temperature dependence of the anisotropy in resistivity, and to other cases of non Fermi-liquids are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9703122,
  title  = {Only Fermi-Liquids are Metals},
  author = {C. M. Varma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9703122},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages,revtex, 1 Postscript figure

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