Strange Metal to Insulator Transitions in the Lowest Landau Level
arXiv:2310.20659 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.023210
Abstract
We study the microscopic model of electrons in the partially-filled lowest Landau level interacting via the Coulomb potential by the diagrammatic theory within the GW approximation. In a wide range of filling fractions and temperatures, we find a homogeneous non-Fermi liquid (nFL) state similar to that found in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, with logarithmic corrections to the anomalous dimension. In addition, the phase diagram is qualitatively similiar to that of SYK: a first-order transition terminating at a critical end-point separates the nFL phase from a band insulator that corresponds to the fully-filled Landau level. This critical point, as well as that of the SYK model -- whose critical exponents we determine more precisely -- are shown to both belong to the Van der Waals universality class. The possibility of a charge density wave (CDW) instability is also investigated, and we find the homogeneous nFL state to extend down to the ground state for fillings , while a CDW appears outside this range of fillings at sufficiently low temperatures. Our results suggest that the SYK-like nFL state should be a generic feature of the partially-filled lowest Landau level at intermediate temperatures.
11+6 pages, 6 figures
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