TY - JOUR
T1 - Hubbard model on a triangular lattice
T2 - Pseudogap due to spin density wave fluctuations
AU - Ye, Mengxing
AU - Chubukov, Andrey V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Physical Society.
PY - 2019/7/30
Y1 - 2019/7/30
N2 - We calculate the fermionic spectral function Ak(ω) in the spiral spin density wave (SDW) state of the Hubbard model on a quasi-2D triangular lattice at small but finite temperature T. The spiral SDW order Δ(T) develops below T=TN and has momentum K=(4π/3,0). We pay special attention to fermions with momenta k, for which k and k+K are close to Fermi surface in the absence of SDW. At the mean-field level, Ak(ω) for such fermions has peaks at ω=±Δ(T) at T<TN and displays a conventional Fermi liquid behavior at T>TN. We show that this behavior changes qualitatively beyond mean field due to singular self-energy contributions from thermal fluctuations in a quasi-2D system. We use a nonperturbative eikonal approach and sum up infinite series of thermal self-energy terms. We show that Ak(ω) shows peak/dip/hump features at T<TN, with the peak position at Δ(T) and hump position at Δ(T=0). Above TN, the hump survives up to T=Tp>TN, and in between TN and Tp the spectral function displays the pseudogap behavior. We show that the difference between Tp and TN is controlled by the ratio of in-plane and out-of-plane static spin susceptibilities, which determines the combinatoric factors in the diagrammatic series for the self-energy. For certain values of this ratio, Tp=TN, i.e., the pseudogap region collapses. In this last case, thermal fluctuations are logarithmically singular, yet they do not give rise to pseudogap behavior. Our computational method can be used to study pseudogap physics due to thermal fluctuations in other systems.
AB - We calculate the fermionic spectral function Ak(ω) in the spiral spin density wave (SDW) state of the Hubbard model on a quasi-2D triangular lattice at small but finite temperature T. The spiral SDW order Δ(T) develops below T=TN and has momentum K=(4π/3,0). We pay special attention to fermions with momenta k, for which k and k+K are close to Fermi surface in the absence of SDW. At the mean-field level, Ak(ω) for such fermions has peaks at ω=±Δ(T) at T<TN and displays a conventional Fermi liquid behavior at T>TN. We show that this behavior changes qualitatively beyond mean field due to singular self-energy contributions from thermal fluctuations in a quasi-2D system. We use a nonperturbative eikonal approach and sum up infinite series of thermal self-energy terms. We show that Ak(ω) shows peak/dip/hump features at T<TN, with the peak position at Δ(T) and hump position at Δ(T=0). Above TN, the hump survives up to T=Tp>TN, and in between TN and Tp the spectral function displays the pseudogap behavior. We show that the difference between Tp and TN is controlled by the ratio of in-plane and out-of-plane static spin susceptibilities, which determines the combinatoric factors in the diagrammatic series for the self-energy. For certain values of this ratio, Tp=TN, i.e., the pseudogap region collapses. In this last case, thermal fluctuations are logarithmically singular, yet they do not give rise to pseudogap behavior. Our computational method can be used to study pseudogap physics due to thermal fluctuations in other systems.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.035135
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.035135
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073647419
SN - 2469-9950
VL - 100
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
IS - 3
M1 - 035135
ER -