Probing a Bose Metal via Electrons: Inescapable non-Fermi liquid scattering and pseudogap physics
Abstract
Non-Fermi liquid behavior and pseudogap formation are among the most well-known examples of exotic spectral features observed in several strongly correlated materials such as the hole-doped cuprates, nickelates, iridates, ruthenates, ferropnictides, doped Mott organics, transition metal dichalcogenides, heavy fermions, d- and f- electron metals, etc. We demonstrate that these features are inevitable consequences when fermions couple to an unconventional Bose metal [1] mean field consisting of lower-dimensional coherence. Not only do we find both exotic phenomena, but also a host of other features that have been observed e.g. in the cuprates including nodal anti-nodal dichotomy and pseudogap asymmetry(symmetry) in momentum(real) space. Obtaining these exotic and heretofore mysterious phenomena via a mean field offers a simple, universal, and therefore widely applicable explanation for their ubiquitous empirical appearance. [1] A. Hegg, J. Hou, and W. Ku, Geometric frustration produces long-sought Bose metal phase of quantum matter, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2021, 118 (46) e2100545118.
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@article{arxiv.2104.07583,
title = {Probing a Bose Metal via Electrons: Inescapable non-Fermi liquid scattering and pseudogap physics},
author = {Xinlei Yue and Anthony Hegg and Xiang Li and Wei Ku},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07583},
year = {2024}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures; revised appendix, updated reference