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Pairing and non-Fermi liquid behavior in partially flat-band systems

Superconductivity 2020-01-15 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

While multiband systems are usually considered for flat-band physics, here we study one-band models that have flat portions in the dispersion to explore correlation effects in the 2D repulsive Hubbard model in an intermediate coupling regime. The FLEX+DMFT~(the dynamical mean-field theory combined with the fluctuation exchange approximation) is used to show that we have a crossover from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations as the band filling is varied, which triggers a crossover from triplet to singlet pairings with a peculiar filling dependence that is dominated by the size of the flat region in the dispersion. A curious manifestation of the flat part appears as larger numbers of nodal lines associated with pairs extended in real space. We further detect non-Fermi liquid behavior in the momentum distribution function, frequency dependence of the self-energy and spectral function. These indicate correlation physics peculiar to flat-band systems.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09888,
  title  = {Pairing and non-Fermi liquid behavior in partially flat-band systems},
  author = {Sharareh Sayyad and Edwin W. Huang and Motoharu Kitatani and Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi and Zohar Nussinov and Abolhassan Vaezi and Hideo Aoki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09888},
  year   = {2020}
}

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7+2 pages

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