Disorder effects at a nematic quantum critical point in d-wave cuprate superconductor

Details Disorder effects at a nematic quantum critical point in d-wave cuprate superconductor Disorder effects at a nematic quantum critical point in d-wave cuprate superconductor

2011-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/1101.1551v3

Phys. Rev. B 83, 214503 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

12 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

A d-wave high temperature cuprate superconductor exhibits a nematic ordering transition at zero temperature. Near the quantum critical point, the coupling between gapless nodal quasiparticles and nematic order parameter fluctuation can result in unusual behaviors, such as extreme anisotropy of fermion velocities. We study the disorder effect on the nematic quantum critical behavior and especially on the flow of fermion velocities. The disorders that couple to nodal quasiparticles are divided into three types: random mass, random gauge field, and random chemical potential. A renormalization group analysis shows that random mass and random gauge field are both irrelevant and thus do not change the fixed point of extreme velocity anisotropy. However, the marginal interaction due to random chemical potential destroys this fixed point and makes the nematic phase transition unstable.

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