Low-Energy Effective Theory at a Quantum Critical Point of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model: Mean-Field Analysis

Abstract

We complement previous functional renormalization group (fRG) studies of the two-dimensional Hubbard model by mean-field calculations. The focus falls on Van Hove filling and the the hopping amplitude t'/t=0.341. The fRG data suggest a quantum critical point (QCP) in this region and in its vicinity a singular fermionic self-energy, Im $\Sigma (\omega )/\omega \sim |\omega {|}^{-\gamma }$ with $\gamma \approx 0.26$. Here we start a more detailed investigation of this QCP using a bosonic formulation for the effective action, where the bosons couple to the order parameter fields. To this end, we use the channel decomposition of the fermionic effective action developed in [Phys. Rev. B 79, 195125 (2009)], which allows to perform Hubbard-Stratonovich transformations for all relevant order parameter fields at any given energy scale. We stop the flow at a scale where the correlations of the order parameter field are already pronounced, but the flow is still regular, and derive the effective boson theory. It contains d-wave superconducting, magnetic, and density-density interactions. We analyze the resulting phase diagram in the mean-field approximation. We show that the singular fermionic self-energy suppresses gap formation both in the superconducting and magnetic channel already at the mean-field level, thus rounding a first-order transition (without self-energy) to a quantum phase transition (with self-energy). We give a simple effective model that shows the generality of this effect. In the two-dimensional Hubbard model, the effective density-density interaction is peaked at a nonzero frequency, so that solving the mean-field equations already involves a functional equation instead of simply a matrix equation (on a technical level, similar to incommensurate phases). Within a certain approximation, we show that such an interaction leads to a short quasiparticle lifetime.

arXiv comment15 pages, 9 figures

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