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Quasiparticle interaction function in a 2D Fermi liquid near an antiferromagnetic critical point

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-06-17 v3

Abstract

We present the expression for the quasiparticle vertex function Γω(KF,PF)\Gamma^{\omega }(K_{F},P_{F}) (proportional to the Landau function) in a 2D Fermi liquid (FL) near a T=0T=0 instability towards antiferromagnetism. Previous studies have found that near an instability, the system enters into a critical FL regime, in which the fermionic self-energy is large near hot spots (points on the Fermi surface connected by the antiferromagnetic ordering vector qπ=(π,π)q_\pi=(\pi,\pi)) and has much stronger dependence on frequency than on momentum. We show that to properly calculate the vertex function in this regime one has to sum up an infinite series of terms which were explicitly excluded in the conventional treatment. Besides, we show that, to properly describe the spin component of Γω(KF,PF)\Gamma^{\omega }(K_{F},P_{F}) even in an ordinary FL, one has to include Aslamazov-Larkin terms. We show that the total Γω(KF,PF)\Gamma^{\omega }(K_{F},P_{F}) is larger in a critical FL than in an ordinary FL, roughly by an extra power of magnetic correlation length ξ\xi. However, the enhancement of Γω(KF,PF)\Gamma ^{\omega }(K_{F},P_{F}) is highly non-uniform: It holds only when, for one of the two momentum variables, the distance from a hot spot along the Fermi surface is much larger than for the other one. We show that the charge and spin components of the total vertex function satisfy the universal relations following from the Ward identities related to the conservation of the particle number and the total spin. We find that the charge and spin components of Γω(KF,PF)\Gamma^{\omega }(K_{F},P_{F}) are identical to leading order in the magnetic correlation length. We derive the Landau parameters, the density of states NFN_F, and the uniform (q=0q=0) charge and spin susceptibilities χcl=0=χsl=0\chi ^{l=0}_{c} = \chi^{l=0}_s. We show that the susceptibilities remain finite at ξ=\xi = \infty despite that NFN_F diverges as logξ\log \xi.

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@article{arxiv.1309.5228,
  title  = {Quasiparticle interaction function in a 2D Fermi liquid near an antiferromagnetic critical point},
  author = {Andrey V Chubukov and Peter Wolfle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5228},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

63 pages, 21 figures. A typo in Fig. 9 is corrected

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