Charge Friedel oscillations in a Mott insulator

Details Charge Friedel oscillations in a Mott insulator Charge Friedel oscillations in a Mott insulator

2010-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2413v1

Phys. Rev. B 84, 041102(R) (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.041102

When a metal undergoes a transition to an insulator it will lose its electronic Fermi surface. Interestingly in some situations a `ghost' Fermi surface of electrically neutral spin carrying fermions may survive into the insulator. Such a novel ghost Fermi surface has been proposed to underlie the properties of a few different materials but its direct detection has proven elusive. In this paper we show that the ghost Fermi surface leads to slowly decaying spatial oscillations of the electron density near impurities or other defects. These and related oscillations stem from the sharpness of the ghost Fermi surface and are direct analogs of the familiar Friedel oscillations in metals. The oscillation period contains geometric information about the shape of the ghost Fermi surface which can be potentially exploited to detect its existence.

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