On the Critical Behavior of the Uniform Susceptibility of a Fermi Liquid Near an Antiferromagnetic Transition with Dynamic Exponent $z=2$

Abstract

We compute the leading behavior of the uniform magnetic susceptibility, $\chi$, of a Fermi liquid near an antiferromagnetic transition with dynamic exponent $z=2$. Our calculation clarifies the role of triangular ``anomaly'' graphs in the theory and justifies the effective action used in previous work \cite{Hertz}. We find that at the $z=2$ critical point of a two dimensional material, $li{m}_{q\to 0}\chi (q,0)={\chi }_0-DT$ with ${\chi }_0$ and $D$ nonuniversal constants. For reasonable band structures we find that in a weak coupling approximation $D$ is small and positive. Our result suggests that the behavior observed in the quantum critical regime of underdoped high-$T_c$ superconductors are difficult to explain in a $z=2$ theory.

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