Tuesday, April 30, 2013

1304.7486 (Wenhu Xu et al.)

Hidden Fermi Liquid, Scattering Rate Saturation and Nernst Effect: a
DMFT Perspective
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Wenhu Xu, Kristjan Haule, Gabriel Kotliar
We investigate the transport properties of a correlated metal within dynamical mean field theory. Canonical Fermi liquid behavior emerges only below a very low temperature scale $T_{FL}$. Surprisingly the quasiparticle scattering rate follows a quadratic temperature dependence up to much higher temperatures and crosses over to saturated behavior around a temperature scale $T_{sat}$. We identify these quasiparticles as constituents of the hidden Fermi liquid. The non-Fermi liquid transport above $T_{FL}$, in particular the linear-in-$T$ resistivity, is shown to be a result of a strongly temperature dependent band dispersion. We derive simple expressions for resistivity, Hall angle, thermoelectric power and Nernst coefficient in terms of a temperature dependent renormalized band structure and the quasiparticle scattering rate. We discuss possible tests of the DMFT picture of transport using ac measurements.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7486

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