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Doped high-Tc cuprate superconductors elucidated in the light of zeros and poles of electronic Green's function
We study electronic structure of hole- and electron-doped Mott insulators in
the two-dimensional Hubbard model to reach a unified picture for the normal
state of cuprate high-Tc superconductors. By using a cluster extension of the
dynamical mean-field theory, we demonstrate that structure of coexisting zeros
and poles of the single-particle Green's function holds the key to understand
Mott physics in the underdoped region. We show evidence for the emergence of
non-Fermi-liquid phase caused by the topological quantum phase transition of
Fermi surface by analyzing low-energy charge dynamics. The spectra calculated
in a wide range of energy and momentum reproduce various anomalous properties
observed in experiments for the high-Tc cuprates. Our results reveal that the
pseudogap in hole-doped cuprates has a d-wave-like structure only below the
Fermi level, while it retains non-d-wave structure with a fully opened gap
above the Fermi energy even in the nodal direction due to a zero surface
extending over the entire Brillouin zone. In addition to the non-d-wave
pseudogap, the present comprehensive identifications of the spectral asymmetry
as to the Fermi energy, the Fermi arc, and the back-bending behavior of the
dispersion, waterfall, and low-energy kink, in agreement with the experimental
anomalies of the cuprates, do not support that these originate from (the
precursors of) symmetry breakings such as the preformed pairing and the
d-density wave fluctuations, but support that they are direct consequences of
the proximity to the Mott insulator. Several possible experiments are further
proposed to prove or disprove our zero mechanism.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figure
Itinerant ferromagnetism in the multiorbital Hubbard model: a dynamical mean-field study
In order to resolve the long-standing issue of how the itinerant
ferromagnetism is affected by the lattice structure and Hund's coupling, we
have compared various three-dimensional lattice structures in the single- and
multiorbital Hubbard models with the dynamical mean-field theory with an
improved quantum Monte Carlo algorithm that preserves the spin-SU(2) symmetry.
The result indicates that {\it both} the lattice structure and the d-orbital
degeneracy are essential for the ferromagnetism in the parameter region
representing a transition metal. Specifically, (a) Hund's coupling, despite the
common belief, is important, which is here identified to come from
particle-hole scatterings, and (b) the ferromagnetism is a correlation effect
(outside the Stoner picture) as indicated from the band-filling dependence.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Anomalous behavior of the spin gap of a spin-1/2 two-leg antiferromagnetic ladder with Ising-like rung interactions
Using mainly numerical methods, we investigate the width of the spin gap of a
spin-1/2 two-leg ladder described by \cH= J_\rl \sum_{j=1}^{N/2} [ \vS_{j,a}
\cdot \vS_{j+1,a} + \vS_{j,b} \cdot \vS_{j+1,b} ] + J_\rr \sum_{j=1}^{N/2}
[\lambda (S^x_{j,a} S^x_{j,b} + S^y_{j,a} S^y_{j,b}) + S^z_{j,a} S^z_{j,b}] ,
where denotes the -component of the spin-1/2
operator at the -th site of the chain. We mainly focus on the J_\rr
\gg J_\rl > 0 and case. The width of the spin gap as a
function of anomalously increases near ; for instance,
for when . The gap formation
mechanism is thought to be different for the
cases. Since, in usual cases, the width of the gap becomes zero or small at the
point where the gap formation mechanism changes, the above gap-increasing
phenomenon in the present case is anomalous. We explain the origin of this
anomalous phenomenon by use of the degenerate perturbation theory. We also draw
the ground-state phase diagram.Comment: 4 pages, 11 figures; Proc. "The International Conference on Quantum
Criticality and Novel Phases" (2012), to be published in Phys. Stat. Solidi
Gap formation and soft phonon mode in the Holstein model
We investigate electron-phonon coupling in many-electron systems using
dynamical mean-field theory in combination with the numerical renormalization
group. This non-perturbative method reveals significant precursor effects to
the gap formation at intermediate coupling strengths. The emergence of a soft
phonon mode and very strong lattice fluctuations can be understood in terms of
Kondo-like physics due to the development of a double-well structure in the
effective potential for the ions
Metamagnetism of antiferromagnetic XXZ quantum spin chains
The magnetization process of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg
model with the Ising-like anisotropic exchange interaction is studied by the
exact diagonalization technique. It results in the evidence of the first-order
spin flop transition with a finite magnetization jump in the N\'eel ordered
phase for . It implies that the S=1/2 chain is an exceptional case
where the metamagnetic transition becomes second-order due to large quantum
fluctuations.Comment: 4 pages, Revtex, with 6 eps figure
Peculiar Velocities of Nonlinear Structure: Voids in McVittie Spacetime
As a study of peculiar velocities of nonlinear structure, we analyze the
model of a relativistic thin-shell void in the expanding universe. (1) Adopting
McVittie (MV) spacetime as a background universe, we investigate the dynamics
of an uncompensated void with negative MV mass. Although the motion itself is
quite different from that of a compensated void, as shown by Haines & Harris
(1993), the present peculiar velocities are not affected by MV mass. (2) We
discuss how precisely the formula in the linear perturbation theory applies to
nonlinear relativistic voids, using the results in (1) as well as the previous
results for the homogeneous background (Sakai, Maeda, & Sato 1993). (3) We
re-examine the effect of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Contrary to
the results of Pim & Lake (1986, 1988), we find that the effect is negligible.
We show that their results are due to inappropriate initial conditions. Our
results (1)-(3) suggest that the formula in the linear perturbation theory is
approximately valid even for nonlinear voids.Comment: 12 pages, aastex, 4 ps figures separate, Fig.2 added, to appear in
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