Doped Mott Insulators Break ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ Symmetry of a Fermi Liquid: Stability of Strongly Coupled Fixed Points

Abstract

Because Fermi liquids are inherently non-interacting states of matter, all electronic levels below the chemical potential are doubly occupied. Consequently, the simplest way of breaking Fermi liquid theory is to engineer a model in which some of those states are singly occupied keeping time-reversal invariance intact. We show that breaking an overlooked local-in-momentum space ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ symmetry of a Fermi liquid does precisely this. As a result, while the Mott transition from a Fermi liquid is correctly believed to obtain without the breaking of any continuous symmetry, a discrete symmetry is broken. This symmetry breaking serves as an organizing principle for Mott physics whether it arises from the tractable Hatsugai-Kohmoto (HK) model or the intractable Hubbard model. That both are controlled by the same fixed point we establish through a renormalization group analysis. An experimental manifestation of this fixed point is the onset of particle-hole asymmetry, a widely observed phenomenon in strongly correlated systems. Theoretically, the singly-occupied region of the spectrum gives rise to a surface of zeros of the single-particle Green function, denoted as the Luttinger surface. Using K-homology, we show that the Bott topological invariant guarantees the stability of this surface to local perturbations. Our proof demonstrates that the strongly coupled fixed point only corresponds to those Luttinger surfaces with co-dimension $p+1$ with $p$ odd. We conclude that the Hubbard and HK models both lie in the same high temperature universality class and are controlled by the broken ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ symmetry quartic fixed point.

Published version in Nature Physics

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