Probing quasiparticle excitations in a doped Mott insulator via Friedel oscillations

Abstract

In this work, we investigate impurity-induced Friedel oscillations in the doped two-dimensional Hubbard model, focusing on the role of holon and doublon excitations. We show that weak impurities, due to the non-fermionic nature of the underlying quasiparticles, induce Friedel oscillations whose behavior is consistent with an effective non-interacting theory for these quasiparticles, and whose wavevector reflects the violation of Luttinger's theorem. At larger impurity strength, the system transitions to a phase-separated state composed of coexisting Mott-insulating (half-filled) and hole-rich regions. Within the composite operator framework, this phase separation arises from a competition between the kinetic energy of holons and the tendency to form tightly bound holon-doublon pairs. Our results offer new insights into the nature of charge carriers and the emergent electronic phases in the doped Mott regime.

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