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Supermetal

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-01-01 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the effect of electron interaction in an electronic system with a high-order Van Hove singularity, where the density of states shows a power-law divergence. Owing to scale invariance, we perform a renormalization group (RG) analysis to find a nontrivial metallic behavior where various divergent susceptibilities coexist but no long-range order appears. We term such a metallic state as a supermetal. Our RG analysis reveals noninteracting and interacting fixed points, which draws an analogy to the ϕ4\phi^4 theory. We further present a finite anomalous dimension at the interacting fixed point by a controlled RG analysis, thus establishing an interacting supermetal as a non-Fermi liquid.

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@article{arxiv.1905.05188,
  title  = {Supermetal},
  author = {Hiroki Isobe and Liang Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05188},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

33 pages, 11 figures

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