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Fermi Liquid Properties of a Two Dimensional Electron System With the Fermi Level Near a van Hove Singularity
We use a diagrammatic approach to study low energy physics of a two
dimensional electron system where the Fermi level is near van-Hove singularies
in the energy spectrum. We find that in most regions of the
phase diagram the system behaves as a normal Fermi liquid rather than a
marginal Fermi liquid. Particularly, the imaginary part of the self energy is
much smaller than the excitation energy, which implies well defined
quasiparticle excitations, and single particle properties are only weakly
affected by the presence of the van-Hove singularities. The relevance to high
temperature superconductivity is also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 4 postscript figure
Thermodynamic properties of the periodic Anderson model:X-boson treatment
We study the specific dependence of the periodic Anderson Model (PAM) in the
limit of employing the X-boson treatment in two fifferent regimes of
the PAM: the heavy fermion Kondo (HF-K) and the heavy fermion local magnetic
regime (HF-LMM). We obtain a multiple peak structure for the specific heat in
agreement with experimental results as well as the increase of the electronic
effective mass at low temperatures associated with the HF-K regime. The entropy
per site at low T tends to zero in the HF-K regime, corresponding to a singlet
ground state, and it tends to in the HF-LMM, corresponding to a
doublet ground state at each site. The linear coefficient
of the specific heat qualitatively agrees with the experimental results
obtained for differents materials in the two regimes considered here.Comment: 9 pages, 14 figure
Mott Transition in Degenerate Hubbard Models: Application to Doped Fullerenes
The Mott-Hubbard transition is studied for a Hubbard model with orbital
degeneracy N, using a diffusion Monte-Carlo method. Based on general arguments,
we conjecture that the Mott-Hubbard transition takes place for U/W \propto
\sqrt{N}, where U is the Coulomb interaction and W is the band width. This is
supported by exact diagonalization and Monte-Carlo calculations. Realistic
parameters for the doped fullerenes lead to the conclusion that stoichiometric
A_3 C_60 (A=K, Rb) are near the Mott-Hubbard transition, in a correlated
metallic state.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, 1 eps figure included, to be published in Phys.Rev.B
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Non-Fermi liquid regime of a doped Mott insulator
We study the doping of a Mott insulator in the presence of quenched
frustrating disorder in the magnetic exchange. A low doping regime
is found, in which the quasiparticle coherent scale is low : with (the ratio of typical exchange to
hopping). In the ``quantum critical regime'' , several
physical quantities display Marginal Fermi Liquid behaviour : NMR relaxation
time , resistivity , optical lifetime
\tau_{opt}^{-1}\propto \omega/\ln(\omega/\epstar) and response functions obey
scaling, e.g. .
In contrast, single-electron properties display stronger deviations from Fermi
liquid theory in this regime with a dependence of the inverse
single-particle lifetime and a decay of the photoemission
intensity. On the basis of this model and of various experimental evidence, it
is argued that the proximity of a quantum critical point separating a glassy
Mott-Anderson insulator from a metallic ground-state is an important ingredient
in the physics of the normal state of cuprate superconductors (particularly the
Zn-doped materials). In this picture the corresponding quantum critical regime
is a ``slushy'' state of spins and holes with slow spin and charge dynamics
responsible for the anomalous properties of the normal state.Comment: 40 pages, RevTeX, including 13 figures in EPS. v2 : minor changes,
some references adde
Oscillations of the magnetic polarization in a Kondo impurity at finite magnetic fields
The electronic properties of a Kondo impurity are investigated in a magnetic
field using linear response theory. The distribution of electrical charge and
magnetic polarization are calculated in real space. The (small) magnetic field
does not change the charge distribution. However, it unmasks the Kondo cloud.
The (equal) weight of the d-electron components with their magnetic moment up
and down is shifted and the compensating s-electron clouds don't cancel any
longer (a requirement for an experimental detection of the Kondo cloud). In
addition to the net magnetic polarization of the conduction electrons an
oscillating magnetic polarization with a period of half the Fermi wave length
is observed. However, this oscillating magnetic polarization does not show the
long range behavior of Rudermann-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida oscillations because the
oscillations don't extend beyond the Kondo radius. They represent an internal
electronic structure of the Kondo impurity in a magnetic field. PACS: 75.20.Hr,
71.23.An, 71.27.+
Superconductivity in the SU(N) Anderson Lattice at U=\infty
We present a mean-field study of superconductivity in a generalized N-channel
cubic Anderson lattice at U=\infty taking into account the effect of a
nearest-neighbor attraction J. The condition U=\infty is implemented within the
slave-boson formalism considering the slave bosons to be condensed. We consider
the -level occupancy ranging from the mixed valence regime to the Kondo
limit and study the dependence of the critical temperature on the various model
parameters for each of three possible Cooper pairing symmetries (extended s,
d-wave and p-wave pairing) and find interesting crossovers. It is found that
the d- and p- wave order parameters have, in general, very similar critical
temperatures. The extended s-wave pairing seems to be relatively more stable
for electronic densities per channel close to one and for large values of the
superconducting interaction J.Comment: Seven Figures; one appendix. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Localization by disorder in the infrared conductivity of (Y,Pr)Ba2Cu3O7 films
The ab-plane reflectivity of (Y{1-x}Prx)Ba2Cu3O7 thin films was measured in
the 30-30000 cm-1 range for samples with x = 0 (Tc = 90 K), x = 0.4 (Tc = 35 K)
and x = 0.5 (Tc = 19 K) as a function of temperature in the normal state. The
effective charge density obtained from the integrated spectral weight decreases
with increasing x. The variation is consistent with the higher dc resistivity
for x = 0.4, but is one order of magnitude smaller than what would be expected
for x = 0.5. In the latter sample, the conductivity is dominated at all
temperatures by a large localization peak. Its magnitude increases as the
temperature decreases. We relate this peak to the dc resistivity enhancement. A
simple localization-by-disorder model accounts for the optical conductivity of
the x = 0.5 sample.Comment: 7 pages with (4) figures include
Spin-Charge Separation in the Model: Magnetic and Transport Anomalies
A real spin-charge separation scheme is found based on a saddle-point state
of the model. In the one-dimensional (1D) case, such a saddle-point
reproduces the correct asymptotic correlations at the strong-coupling
fixed-point of the model. In the two-dimensional (2D) case, the transverse
gauge field confining spinon and holon is shown to be gapped at {\em finite
doping} so that a spin-charge deconfinement is obtained for its first time in
2D. The gap in the gauge fluctuation disappears at half-filling limit, where a
long-range antiferromagnetic order is recovered at zero temperature and spinons
become confined. The most interesting features of spin dynamics and transport
are exhibited at finite doping where exotic {\em residual} couplings between
spin and charge degrees of freedom lead to systematic anomalies with regard to
a Fermi-liquid system. In spin dynamics, a commensurate antiferromagnetic
fluctuation with a small, doping-dependent energy scale is found, which is
characterized in momentum space by a Gaussian peak at (, ) with
a doping-dependent width (, is the doping
concentration). This commensurate magnetic fluctuation contributes a
non-Korringa behavior for the NMR spin-lattice relaxation rate. There also
exits a characteristic temperature scale below which a pseudogap behavior
appears in the spin dynamics. Furthermore, an incommensurate magnetic
fluctuation is also obtained at a {\em finite} energy regime. In transport, a
strong short-range phase interference leads to an effective holon Lagrangian
which can give rise to a series of interesting phenomena including linear-
resistivity and Hall-angle. We discuss the striking similarities of these
theoretical features with those found in the high- cuprates and give aComment: 70 pages, RevTex, hard copies of 7 figures available upon request;
minor revisions in the text and references have been made; To be published in
July 1 issue of Phys. Rev. B52, (1995
On the violation of the Fermi-liquid picture in two-dimensional systems owing to the Van-Hove singularities
We consider the two-dimensional t-t' Hubbard model with the Fermi level being
close to the van Hove singularities. The phase diagram of the model is
discussed. In a broad energy region the self-energy at the singularity points
has a nearly-linear energy dependence. The corresponding correction to the
density of states is proportional to ln^3(e). Both real- and imaginary part of
the self-energy increase near the quantum phase transition into magnetically
ordered or superconducting phase which implies violation of the Fermi-liquid
behavior. The application of the results to cuprates is discussed.Comment: 16 pages, RevTeX, 5 figures; The errors of the published version (PRB
64, 205105, 2001) are correcte
Centrality dependence of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
The inclusive transverse momentum () distributions of primary
charged particles are measured in the pseudo-rapidity range as a
function of event centrality in Pb-Pb collisions at
TeV with ALICE at the LHC. The data are presented in the range
GeV/ for nine centrality intervals from 70-80% to 0-5%.
The Pb-Pb spectra are presented in terms of the nuclear modification factor
using a pp reference spectrum measured at the same collision
energy. We observe that the suppression of high- particles strongly
depends on event centrality. In central collisions (0-5%) the yield is most
suppressed with at -7 GeV/. Above
GeV/, there is a significant rise in the nuclear modification
factor, which reaches for GeV/. In
peripheral collisions (70-80%), the suppression is weaker with almost independently of . The measured nuclear
modification factors are compared to other measurements and model calculations.Comment: 17 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 12,
published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/284
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