English

Scaling behaviour and superconducting instability in anisotropic non-Fermi liquids

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-06-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the scaling behaviour of the optical conductivity (σ)(\sigma), free energy density (F)(F), and shear viscosity of the quantum critical point associated with the spin density wave phase transition for a two-dimensional metallic system with C2C_2 symmetry. A non-Fermi liquid behaviour emerges at two pairs of isolated points on the Fermi surface, due to the coupling of a bosonic order parameter to fermionic excitations at those so-called ``hot-spots''. We find that near the hot-spots, σ\sigma and FF obey the scalings expected for such an anisotropic system, and the direction-dependent viscosity to entropy density ratio is not a universal number due to the anisotropy. Lastly, we also estimate the effect of the fermion-boson coupling at the hot-spots on superconducting instabilities.

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@article{arxiv.1609.00020,
  title  = {Scaling behaviour and superconducting instability in anisotropic non-Fermi liquids},
  author = {Ipsita Mandal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.00020},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

typos in some equations corrected