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 . This is the same quantum critical timescale that underpins the 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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- Paris Observatory, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stanford University
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- SciPost Physics
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- Journal Name: SciPost Physics Journal Volume: 3 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2542-4653
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- Stichting SciPost
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- Netherlands
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- 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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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.},
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