A slave boson description of pseudogap metals in t-J models
arXiv:2002.04041 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043019
Abstract
We present a simple modification of the standard U(1) slave boson construction for the single band t-J model which accounts for two-particle bound states of spinons and holons. This construction naturally gives rise to fractionalized Fermi liquid ground states, featuring small, hole-like pocket Fermi surfaces with an anisotropic quasiparticle weight in the absence of broken symmetries. In a specific parameter regime our approach maps the square lattice t-J model to a generalized quantum dimer model, which was introduced as a toy model for the metallic pseudogap phase in hole-doped cuprates in [PNAS 112,9552-9557 (2015)]. Our slave boson construction captures essential features of the nodal-antinodal dichotomy and straightforwardly describes sharp, Fermi arc-like features in the electron spectral function. Moreover, it allows to study quantum phase transitions between fractionalized Fermi liquid phases and superconductors or ordinary Fermi liquids.
10 pages, 6 figures
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