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Title: Emergence of quasiparticles in a doped Mott insulator

Abstract

How a Mott insulator develops into a weakly coupled metal upon doping is a central question to understanding various emergent correlated phenomena. To analyze this evolution and its connection to the high-Tc cuprates, we study the single-particle spectrum for the doped Hubbard model using cluster perturbation theory on superclusters. Starting from extremely low doping, we identify a heavily renormalized quasiparticle dispersion that immediately develops across the Fermi level, and a weakening polaronic side band at higher binding energy. The quasiparticle spectral weight roughly grows at twice the rate of doping in the low doping regime, but this rate is halved at optimal doping. In the heavily doped regime, we find both strong electron-hole asymmetry and a persistent presence of Mott spectral features. Finally, we discuss the applicability of the single-band Hubbard model to describe the evolution of nodal spectra measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on the single-layer cuprate La2–xSrxCuO4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15). This work benchmarks the predictive power of the Hubbard model for electronic properties of high-Tc cuprates.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7];  [8];  [8]; ORCiD logo [9]; ORCiD logo [9]
  1. Clemson Univ., SC (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
  3. Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
  5. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  7. Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry, Kanagawa (Japan)
  8. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
  9. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Advanced Light Source (ALS); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); National Science Centre of Poland (NCN); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
OSTI Identifier:
1763697
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1673830
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515; DMR-2038011; GBMF 4305; GBMF 8691
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Communications Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Electronic properties and materials; Superconducting properties and materials

Citation Formats

Wang, Yao, He, Yu, Wohlfeld, Krzysztof, Hashimoto, Makoto, Huang, Edwin W., Lu, Donghui, Mo, Sung-Kwan, Komiya, Seiki, Jia, Chunjing, Moritz, Brian, Shen, Zhi-Xun, and Devereaux, Thomas P. Emergence of quasiparticles in a doped Mott insulator. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s42005-020-00480-5.
Wang, Yao, He, Yu, Wohlfeld, Krzysztof, Hashimoto, Makoto, Huang, Edwin W., Lu, Donghui, Mo, Sung-Kwan, Komiya, Seiki, Jia, Chunjing, Moritz, Brian, Shen, Zhi-Xun, & Devereaux, Thomas P. Emergence of quasiparticles in a doped Mott insulator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00480-5
Wang, Yao, He, Yu, Wohlfeld, Krzysztof, Hashimoto, Makoto, Huang, Edwin W., Lu, Donghui, Mo, Sung-Kwan, Komiya, Seiki, Jia, Chunjing, Moritz, Brian, Shen, Zhi-Xun, and Devereaux, Thomas P. Fri . "Emergence of quasiparticles in a doped Mott insulator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00480-5. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1763697.
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title = {Emergence of quasiparticles in a doped Mott insulator},
author = {Wang, Yao and He, Yu and Wohlfeld, Krzysztof and Hashimoto, Makoto and Huang, Edwin W. and Lu, Donghui and Mo, Sung-Kwan and Komiya, Seiki and Jia, Chunjing and Moritz, Brian and Shen, Zhi-Xun and Devereaux, Thomas P.},
abstractNote = {How a Mott insulator develops into a weakly coupled metal upon doping is a central question to understanding various emergent correlated phenomena. To analyze this evolution and its connection to the high-Tc cuprates, we study the single-particle spectrum for the doped Hubbard model using cluster perturbation theory on superclusters. Starting from extremely low doping, we identify a heavily renormalized quasiparticle dispersion that immediately develops across the Fermi level, and a weakening polaronic side band at higher binding energy. The quasiparticle spectral weight roughly grows at twice the rate of doping in the low doping regime, but this rate is halved at optimal doping. In the heavily doped regime, we find both strong electron-hole asymmetry and a persistent presence of Mott spectral features. Finally, we discuss the applicability of the single-band Hubbard model to describe the evolution of nodal spectra measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on the single-layer cuprate La2–xSrxCuO4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15). This work benchmarks the predictive power of the Hubbard model for electronic properties of high-Tc cuprates.},
doi = {10.1038/s42005-020-00480-5},
journal = {Communications Physics},
number = 1,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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