Theory of the strange metal Sr3Ru2O7

Mousatov, Connie H.; Berg, Erez; Hartnoll, Sean A.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1915224117

Title: Theory of the strange metal Sr₃Ru₂O₇

Journal Article · 23 January 2020 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915224117 · OSTI ID:1608906

Mousatov, Connie H. ^[1]; Berg, Erez ^[2]; Hartnoll, Sean A. ^[3]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

The bilayer perovskite Sr₃Ru₂O₇has been widely studied as a canonical strange metal. It exhibits T-linear resistivity and a T log(1/T) electronic specific heat in a field-tuned quantum cr itical fan. Criticality is known to occur in “hot” Fermi pockets with a high density of states close to the Fermi energy. We show that while these hot pockets occupy a small fraction of the Brillouin zone, they are responsible for the anomalous transport and thermodynamics of the material. Specifically, a scattering process in which two electrons from the large, “cold” Fermi surfaces scatter into one hot and one cold electron renders the ostensibly noncritical cold fermions a marginal Fermi liquid. From this fact the transport and thermodynamic phase diagram is reproduced in detail. To conclude, we show that the same scattering mechanism into hot electrons that are instead localized near a 2D van Hove singularity explains theanomalous transport observed in strained Sr₂RuO₄.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: European Research Council (ERC); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1608906

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 117; ISSN 0027-8424

Publisher:: National Academy of SciencesCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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