Colloque - Thomas Schäfer : Bridging the Gap of Multi-Method, Multi-Messenger Studies from Known to Unknown Fluctuations

Antoine Georges

Physique de la matière condensée

Année 2024-2025

Colloque : Recent Advances and Applications of Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for Fermions

Thomas Schäfer : Bridging the Gap of Multi-Method, Multi-Messenger Studies from Known to Unknown Fluctuations

Thomas Schäfer

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Résumé

The strong mutual repulsion of electrons is responsible for some of the most interesting phenomena in contemporary condensed matter physics, where examples range from unconventional high-temperature superconductivity, over quantum criticality to Mott metal-to-insulator transitions. Despite the intense research on the quantum many-body problem over the last decades, many of its aspects have not yet been fully understood. Recent progress, however, has been achieved by the application of so-called multi-method, multi-messenger studies of the most fundamental model for electronic correlations, the Hubbard model [1,2].

In the first part of the talk, I will present such a study of the half-filled two-dimensional Hubbard model on a simple square lattice at small values of the local Coulomb interaction [1]. I will demonstrate that the footprints of spin fluctuations can be tracked by a rich series of crossovers in multiple observables by multiple numerical techniques. In the second part of the talk, I will show how one can determine which fluctuation channel (charge, spin, particle-particle) is responsible for spectral properties such as the pseudogap in the strong coupling regime, directly relevant to cuprates. For this I will introduce the so-called "fluctuation diagnostics" approach [3,4], which can be utilized on top of diverse numerical methods, making it a helpful tool for future multi-method studies of strongly correlated phenomena.

Références

[1] Thomas Schäfer, Nils Wentzell, Fedor Šimkovic IV, Yuan-Yao He, Cornelia Hille, Marcel Klett, Christian J. Eckhardt, Behnam Arzhang, Viktor Harkov, François-Marie Le Régent, Alfred Kirsch, Yan Wang, Aaram J. Kim, Evgeny Kozik, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Anna Kauch, Sabine Andergassen, Philipp Hansmann, Daniel Rohe, Yuri M. Vilk, James P. F. LeBlanc, Shiwei Zhang, A.-M. S. Tremblay, Michel Ferrero, Olivier Parcollet, Antoine Georges, "Tracking the Footprints of Spin Fluctuations: A Multi-Method, Multi-Messenger Study of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model", Phys. Rev. X, 11, 011058 (2021).

[2] Alexander Wietek, Riccardo Rossi, Fedor Šimkovic IV, Marcel Klett, Philipp Hansmann, Michel Ferrero, E. Miles Stoudenmire, Thomas Schäfer, and Antoine Georges, "Mott insulating states with competing orders in the triangular lattice Hubbard model", Phys. Rev. X, 11, 041013 (2021).

[3] O. Gunnarsson, T. Schäfer, J. LeBlanc, E. Gull, J. Merino, G. Sangiovanni, G. Rohringer, and A. Toschi, "Fluctuation Diagnostics of the Electron Self-Energy: Origin of the Pseudogap Physics", Phys. Rev. Lett., 114, 236402 (2015).

[4] Thomas Schäfer and Alessandro Toschi, "How to read between the lines of electronic spectra: the diagnostics of fluctuations in strongly correlated electron systems", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 33, 214001 (2021).