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Title: A model of non-Fermi liquid with power law resistivity: strange metal with a not-so-strange origin

Abstract: We construct a model which exhibits resistivity going as a power law in temperature $T$, as $T^\alpha$ down to the lowest temperature. There is no residual resistivity because we assume the absence of disorder and momentum relaxation is due to umklapp scattering. Our model consists of a quantum spin liquid state with spinon Fermi surface and a hole Fermi surface made out of doped holes. The key ingredient is a set of singular $2k_F$ modes living on a ring in momentum space. Depending on parameters, $\alpha$ may be unity (strange metal) or even smaller. The model may be applicable to a doped organic compound, which has been found to exhibit linear T resistivity. We conclude that it is possible to obtain strange metal behavior starting with a model which is not so strange.
Comments: This version corrects the expression for the polarization function for q>\omega^2/3. This does not change the resistivity exponent for \sigma >1/6. For \sigma <1/6 we now recovers the Fermi liquid limit, as seen in the updated fig 2
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
Cite as: arXiv:2402.10878 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2402.10878v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Patrick A. Lee [view email]
[v1] Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:31:01 GMT (293kb,D)
[v2] Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:50:59 GMT (418kb,D)

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