Decohering the Fermi liquid: A dual approach to the Mott Transition

Details Decohering the Fermi liquid: A dual approach to the Mott Transition Decohering the Fermi liquid: A dual approach to the Mott Transition

2011-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4125v1

Phys. Rev. B 84, 165126 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.165126

We present a theoretical approach to describing the Mott transition of electrons on a two dimensional lattice that begins with the low energy effective theory of the Fermi liquid. The approach to the Mott transition must be characterized by the suppression of density and current fluctuations which correspond to specific shape deformations of the Fermi surface. We explore the nature of the Mott insulator and the corresponding Mott transition when these shape fluctuations of the Fermi surface are suppressed without making any a prior assumptions about other Fermi surface shape fluctuations. Building on insights from the theory of the Mott transition of bosons, we implement this suppression by identifying and condensing vortex degrees of freedom in the phase of the low energy electron operator. We show that the resulting Mott insulator is a quantum spin liquid with a spinon fermi surface coupled to a U(1) gauge field which is usually described within a slave particle formulation. Our approach thus provides a coarse-grained treatment of the Mott transition and the proximate spin liquid that is nevertheless equivalent to the standard slave particle construction. This alternate point of view provides further insight into the novel physics of the Mott transition and the spin liquid state that is potentially useful. We describe a generalization that suppresses spin anti-symmetric fluctuations of the Fermi surface that leads to a spin-gapped charge metal previously also discussed in terms of slave particle constructions.

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