Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in Doped Mott Insulators by Dynamical Spectral Weight Tran.pdfVIP

Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in Doped Mott Insulators by Dynamical Spectral Weight Transfer Philip Phillips, Ting-Pong Choy, and Robert G. Leigh Department of Physics, University of Illinois 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana IL 61801, U.S.A. We show that doped Mott insulators exhibit a collective degree of freedom, not made out of the elemental excitations, because the number of single-particle addition states at low energy per electron per spin is greater than one. The presence of such a collective degree of freedom which is not a consequence of proximity to a phase transition but rather stems from dynamical spectral 8 weight transfer from high to low energies. This physics is captured by the charge 2e boson that 0 emerges by explicitly integrating out the high-energy scale in the Hubbard model. The charge 2e 0 boson binds to a hole, thereby mediating new charge e states at low energy. It is the presence of such 2 charge e states which have no counterpart in the non-interacting system that provides the general y mechanism for the breakdown of Fermi liquid theory in doped Mott insulators. The relationship a between the charge 2e boson formulation and the standard perturbative treatment is explained. M 0 The cornerstone of the standard theory of metals, 3 Fermi liquid theory, is that although the electrons in- teract, the low-energy excitation spectrum stands in a ] one-to-one corre