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量子铁电金属的临界性理论

A theory of criticality for quantum ferroelectric metals

Avraham Klein, Vladyslav Kozii, Jonathan Ruhman, Rafael M. Fernandes

AI总结:

本文建立电子经 Rashba 自旋轨道耦合与横向极性声子作用的最小模型,分析二维、三维量子铁电金属临界区,揭示非 Fermi 液体、配对增强及多类型相变,并提出应变调控相图。

摘要:

多种化合物,例如掺杂顺电体和极性金属,同时表现出铁电性以及低密度超导和反常输运等关联电子现象。刻画这些性质与理解在巡游电子存在时反演对称性破缺的量子动力学密切相关。在此,我们对二维和三维中接近向铁电态发生量子临界转变的金属的正常态性质进行了全面分析。从电子通过 Rashba 型自旋轨道相互作用与横向极性声子耦合的最小模型出发,我们计算了电子和声子的动力学响应。我们发现该系统可以同时呈现 Fermi 液体相和非 Fermi 液体相,以及单重态和三重态通道中增强的配对。此外,我们系统地计算了对单圈理论的修正,并发现存在量子 order-by-disorder(无序导致有序)的倾向,从而得到一个可包含二级相变、一级相变和有限动量相变的相图。最后,我们表明整个相图可以通过施加外部应变(压缩应变或保体积应变)来调控。我们的结果提供了一幅量子铁电金属的动力学和热力学相空间图谱,可用于表征现有材料以及寻找量子技术的应用。

英文摘要:

A variety of compounds, for example doped paraelectrics and polar metals, exhibit both ferroelectricity and correlated electronic phenomena such as low-density superconductivity and anomalous transport. Characterizing such properties is tied to understanding the quantum dynamics of inversion symmetry breaking in the presence of itinerant electrons. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis of the normal state properties of a metal near a quantum critical transition to a ferroelectric state, in both two and three dimensions. Starting from a minimal model of electrons coupled to a \emph{transverse} polar phonon via a Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction, we compute the dynamical response of both electrons and phonons. We find that the system can evince both Fermi and non-Fermi liquid phases, as well as enhanced pairing in both singlet and triplet channels. Furthermore, we systematically compute corrections to one-loop theory and find a tendency to quantum order-by-disorder, leading to a phase diagram that can include second order, first order, and finite-momentum phase transitions. Finally, we show that the entire phase diagram can be controlled via application of external strain, either compressive or volume-preserving. Our results provide a map of the dynamical and thermodynamical phase space of quantum ferroelectic metals, which can serve in characterizing existing materials and in seeking applications for quantum technologies.

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