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Interaction-enhanced nesting in spin-fermion and Fermi-Hubbard models

R. Rossi1,2, F. Šimkovic IV3,4,*, M. Ferrero3,4, A. Georges5,4,3,6, A. M. Tsvelik7, N. V. Prokof'ev8, and I. S. Tupitsyn8,†

  • *Present Address: IQM GERMANY GmbH, 80636 München, Germany.
  • †Contact author: itupitsyn@physics.umass.edu
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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L032058 – Published 10 September, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032058

Abstract

The spin-fermion (SF) model postulates that the dominant coupling between low-energy fermions in near critical metals is mediated by collective spin fluctuations (paramagnons) peaked at the Néel wave vector, QN, connecting hot spots on opposite sides of the Fermi surface. It has been argued that strong correlations at hot spots lead to a Fermi surface deformation (FSD) featuring flat regions and increased nesting. This conjecture was confirmed in the perturbative self-consistent calculations when the paramagnon propagator dependence on momentum deviation from QN is given by χ−1∝|Δq|. Using diagrammatic Monte Carlo (diagMC) technique we show that such a dependence holds only at temperatures orders of magnitude smaller than any other energy scale in the problem, indicating that a different mechanism may be at play. Instead, we find that a χ−1∝|Δq|2 dependence yields a robust finite-T scenario for achieving FSD. To link phenomenological and microscopic descriptions, we applied the connected determinant diagMC method to the (t−t′) Hubbard model and found that at large U/t>5.5 before the formation of electron and hole pockets (i) the FSD defined as a maximum of the spectral function is not very pronounced; instead, it is the lines of zeros of the renormalized dispersion relation that deforms toward nesting, and (ii) the static spin susceptibility is well described by χ−1∝|Δq|2. Flat FS regions yield a nontrivial scenario for realizing a non-Fermi liquid state.

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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L032058– Published 10 September, 2024
  • Received 14 June 2024
  • Accepted 28 August 2024
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