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Title: Bad Metals from Fluctuating Density Waves

Abstract

Bad metals have a large resistivity without being strongly disordered. In many bad metals the Drude peak moves away from zero frequency as the resistivity becomes large at increasing temperatures. We catalogue the position and width of the ‘displaced Drude peak’ in the observed optical conductivity of several families of bad metals, showing that \omega_\text{peak} \sim \Delta \omega \sim k_BT/\hbar ω peak Δ ω k B T / . This is the same quantum critical timescale that underpins the T T -linear dc resistivity of many of these materials. We provide a unified theoretical description of the optical and dc transport properties of bad metals in terms of the hydrodynamics of short range quantum critical fluctuations of incommensurate density wave order. Within hydrodynamics, pinned translational order is essential to obtain the nonzero frequency peak.

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. Stanford University
  2. Paris Observatory, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stanford University
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1395586
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Published Article
Journal Name:
SciPost Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: SciPost Physics Journal Volume: 3 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2542-4653
Publisher:
Stichting SciPost
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English

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Delacrétaz, Luca, Goutéraux, Blaise, Hartnoll, Sean, and Karlsson, Anna. Bad Metals from Fluctuating Density Waves. Netherlands: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.3.3.025.
Delacrétaz, Luca, Goutéraux, Blaise, Hartnoll, Sean, & Karlsson, Anna. Bad Metals from Fluctuating Density Waves. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.3.3.025
Delacrétaz, Luca, Goutéraux, Blaise, Hartnoll, Sean, and Karlsson, Anna. Fri . "Bad Metals from Fluctuating Density Waves". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.3.3.025.
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title = {Bad Metals from Fluctuating Density Waves},
author = {Delacrétaz, Luca and Goutéraux, Blaise and Hartnoll, Sean and Karlsson, Anna},
abstractNote = {Bad metals have a large resistivity without being strongly disordered. In many bad metals the Drude peak moves away from zero frequency as the resistivity becomes large at increasing temperatures. We catalogue the position and width of the ‘displaced Drude peak’ in the observed optical conductivity of several families of bad metals, showing that \omega_\text{peak} \sim \Delta \omega \sim k_BT/\hbar ω peak ∼ Δ ω ∼ k B T / ℏ . This is the same quantum critical timescale that underpins the T T -linear dc resistivity of many of these materials. We provide a unified theoretical description of the optical and dc transport properties of bad metals in terms of the hydrodynamics of short range quantum critical fluctuations of incommensurate density wave order. Within hydrodynamics, pinned translational order is essential to obtain the nonzero frequency peak.},
doi = {10.21468/SciPostPhys.3.3.025},
journal = {SciPost Physics},
number = 3,
volume = 3,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Fri Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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