Resilient strange metal at an unconventional quantum critical point in d=2
2026/08/06 by Jérôme Leblanc, A. -M. S. Tremblay
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el
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9 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2026/08/06 · arxiv updated 2026/08/07
Abstract
Properties of the two-dimensional Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor hopping are under scrutiny in cold-atom experiments and diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo. Given the controlled nature of these approaches, it is timely to make predictions about strange-metal behavior and its relation to quantum-critical properties. Even for interaction strengths below the Mott transition, several peculiarities occur at the quantum critical point separating Fermi liquid and incommensurate spin-density wave order. Here, we predict, using the non-perturbative improved two-particle self-consistent approach, that for correlation lengths ranging from about one to one hundred lattice spacings, Kohn anomalies on the underlying Fermi surface lead to unconventional critical exponents. The temperature dependence of the single-particle self-energy acquires strong momentum dependence along the Fermi surface with no clear evidence of Landau quasiparticles. Nevertheless, we observe strange-metal behavior, namely, resistivity that scales linearly with temperature as T→0. Our work shows that a linear temperature dependence of resistivity arises without a linear-in-temperature self-energy along the Fermi surface, as is often assumed.
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