Emergence of non-Fermi-liquid behavior due to Fermi surface reconstruction in the underdoped cuprate superconductors

Abstract

We present an intermediate coupling scenario together with a model analytic solution where the non-Fermi-liquid behavior in the underdoped cuprates emerges through the mechanism of Fermi surface (FS) reconstruction. Even though the fluctuation spectrum remains nearly isotropic, FS reconstruction driven by a density wave order breaks the lattice symmetry and induces a strong momentum dependence in the self-energy. As the doping is reduced to half-filling, we find that quasiparticle (QP) dispersion becomes essentially unrenormalized, but in sharp contrast the QP spectral weight renormalizes to nearly zero. This opposite doping evolution of the renormalization factors for QP dispersion and spectral weight conspires in such a way that the specific heat remains Fermi liquid like at all dopings in accord with experiments.

Accepted for publication in Physical Review B (2010).

References in corpus (23)

• Quantum oscillations and the Fermi surface in an underdoped high-Tc superconductor
• A Phenomenological Theory of The Pseudogap State
• A Non-Fermi Liquid from a Charged Black Hole; A Critical Fermi Ball
• Evolution of electronic structure of doped Mott insulators - reconstruction of poles and zeros of Green's function
• Fermi Surface Evolution in an Electron-Doped High-Tc Superconductor Revealed by Magnetic Quantum Oscillations
• Low-Energy Electronic Structure of the High-Tc Cuprates La2-xSrxCuO4 Studied by Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
• Momentum-resolved spectral functions of SrVO${}_3$ calculated by LDA+DMFT
• Role of backflow correlations for the non-magnetic phase of the t-t' Hubbard model
• High energy kink in the single particle spectra of the two-dimensional Hubbard model
• Fluctuating spin density waves in metals
• Electronic structure near the 1/8-anomaly in La-based cuprates
• Nodeless d-wave superconducting pairing due to residual antiferromagnetism in underdoped Pr${}_{2-x}$Ce${}_x$CuO${}_{4-\delta }$
• A competing order scenario of two-gap behavior in hole doped cuprates
• Paramagnon-induced dispersion anomalies in the cuprates
• Low energy physical properties of high-Tc superconducting Cu oxides: A comparison between the resonating valence bond and experiments
• Nonmonotonic $d_{x^2-y^2}$ superconducting gap in electron-doped Pr${}_{0.89}$LaCe${}_{0.11}$CuO${}_4$: Evidence of coexisting antiferromagnetism and superconductivity?
• Gutzwiller Magnetic Phase Diagram of the Cuprates
• Kinks in the electronic specific heat
• Extinction of quasiparticle interference in underdoped cuprates with coexisting order
• Destruction of Neel order and appearance of superconductivity in electron-doped cuprates by oxygen annealing process
• Superconductivity and topological Fermi surface transitions in electron-doped cuprates near optimal doping
• Gutzwiller Magnetic Phase Diagram of the Undoped t-t'-U Hubbard Model
• Spin-polaron band structure and hole pockets in underdoped cuprates

Cited by in corpus (8)

• Stripes, spin resonance and $d_{x^2-y^2}-$pairing symmetry in FeSe-based layered superconductors
• Intermediate Coupling Model of the Cuprates
• Failure of t-J models in describing doping evolution of spectral weight in x-ray scattering, optical and photoemission spectra of the cuprates
• Coexisting pseudogap, charge transfer gap, and Mott gap energy scales in the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectra of electron-doped cuprates
• Crossover from inelastic magnetic scattering of Cooper pairs to spin-wave dispersion produces low-energy kink in cuprates
• Self-consistent spin-fluctuation spectrum and correlated electronic structure of actinides
• Pseudogap and the specific heat of high $T_c$ superconductors
• Revealing quantum phase string effect in doped Mott-insulator: a tensor network state approach