Fractionalized Metal in a Falicov-Kimball Model

Abstract

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations reveal an exotic metallic phase with a single-particle gap but gapless spin and charge excitations and a nonsaturating resistivity in a two-dimensional SU(2) Falicov-Kimball model. An exact duality between this model and an unconstrained slave-spin theory leads to a classification of the phase as a fractionalized or orthogonal metal whose low-energy excitations have different quantum numbers than the original electrons. Whereas the fractionalized metal corresponds to the regime of disordered slave spins, the regime of ordered slave spins is a Fermi liquid. At a critical temperature, an Ising phase transition to a spontaneously generated constrained slave-spin theory of the Hubbard model is observed.

8 pages, 7 figures (including Supplemental Material)

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