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Quantum critical point with competing propagating and diffusive spin excitations

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-05-23 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

Feedback effects due to spin fluctuation induced precursors in the fermionic quasiparticle spectrum are taken into account in the description of a quantum critical point of itinerant spin systems. A correlation length dependent spin damping occurs, leading to a dynamical scaling with z\approx 1 which non-trivially competes with the conventional spin wave behavior. We obtain, within a one loop renormalization group approach, a quantitative explanation for the scaling behavior seen in underdoped cuprate superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9810041,
  title  = {Quantum critical point with competing propagating and diffusive spin excitations},
  author = {Joerg Schmalian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9810041},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures