Universal collective modes from strong electronic correlations: Modified $1/{\mathcal{N}}_f$ theory with application to high-$T_c$ cuprates

Abstract

A nonzero-temperature technique for strongly correlated electron lattice systems, combining elements of both variational wave function (VWF) approach and expansion in the inverse number of fermionic flavors ($1/{\mathcal{N}}_f$), is developed. The departure point, VWF method, goes beyond the renormalized mean-field theory and provides semi-quantitative description of principal equilibrium properties of high-$T_c$ superconducting cuprates. The developed here scheme of VWF+$1/{\mathcal{N}}_f$, in the leading order provides dynamical spin and charge responses around the VWF solution, generalizing the weak-coupling spin-fluctuation theory to the regime of strong correlations. Thermodynamic corrections to the correlated saddle-point state arise systematically at consecutive orders. Explicitly, VWF+$1/{\mathcal{N}}_f$ is applied to evaluate dynamical response functions for the hole-doped Hubbard model and compared with available determinant quantum-Monte-Carlo data, yielding a good overall agreement in the regime of coherent collective-mode dynamics. The emergence of well-defined spin and charge excitations from the incoherent continua is explicitly demonstrated and a non-monotonic dependence of the charge-excitation energy on the interaction magnitude is found. The charge-mode energy saturates slowly when approaching the strong-coupling limit, which calls for a reevaluation of the $t$-$J$-model approach to the charge dynamics in favor of more general $t$-$J$-$U$ and $t$-$J$-$U$-$V$ models. The results are also related to recent inelastic resonant $X$-ray and neutron scattering experiments for the high-$T_c$ cuprates.

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