Deconfinement in the presence of a Fermi surface

Details Deconfinement in the presence of a Fermi surface Deconfinement in the presence of a Fermi surface

2005-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502652v3

Phys. Rev. B 72, 245106 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.245106

U(1) gauge theory of non-relativistic fermions interacting via compact U(1) gauge fields in the presence of a Fermi surface appears as an effective field theory in low dimensional quantum antiferromagnetism and heavy fermion liquids. We investigate deconfinement of fermions near the Fermi surface in the effective U(1) gauge theory. Our present analysis benchmarks the recent investigation of quantum electrodynamics in two space and one time dimensions ($QED_3$) by Hermele et al. [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 70}, 214437 (2004)]. Utilizing a renormalization group analysis, we show that the effective U(1) gauge theory with a Fermi surface has a stable charged fixed point. Remarkably, the renormalization group equation for an internal charge $e$ (the coupling strength between non-relativistic fermions and U(1) gauge fields) reveals that the conductivity $\sigma$ of fermions near the Fermi surface plays the same role as the flavor number $N$ of massless Dirac fermions in $QED_3$. This leads us to the conclusion that if the conductivity of fermions is sufficiently large, instanton excitations of U(1) gauge fields can be suppressed owing to critical fluctuations of the non-relativistic fermions at the charged fixed point. As a result a critical field theory of non-relativistic fermions interacting via noncompact U(1) gauge fields is obtained at the charged fixed point.

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