Coherence-Incoherence and Dimensional Crossover in Layered Strongly Correlated Metals

Details Coherence-Incoherence and Dimensional Crossover in Layered Strongly Correlated Metals Coherence-Incoherence and Dimensional Crossover in Layered Strongly Correlated Metals

2002-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204003v2

Nature 417, 627 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Scientific paper

10.1038/nature00774

Correlations between electrons and the effective dimensionality are crucial factors that shape the properties of an interacting electron system. For example, the onsite Coulomb repulsion, U, may inhibit, or completely block the intersite electron hopping, t, and depending on the ratio U/t, a material may be a metal or an insulator. The correlation effects increase as the number of allowed dimensions decreases. In 3D systems, the low energy electronic states behave as quasiparticles (QP), while in 1D systems, even weak interactions break the quasiparticles into collective excitations. Dimensionality is particularly important for a class of new exotic low-dimensional materials where 1D or 2D building blocks are loosely connected into a 3D whole. Small interactions between the blocks may induce a whole variety of unusual transitions. Here, we examine layered systems that in the direction perpendicular to the layers display a crossover from insulating-like, at high temperatures, to metallic-like character at low temperatures, while being metallic over the whole temperature range within the layers. We show that this change in effective dimensionality correlates with the existence or non-existence of coherent quasiparticles within the layers.

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