Above some relatively low temperature (i.e. compared to the bare energy scales such as non-interacting band-widths, J, and Hubbard U) the metal becomes a bad metal, associated with incoherent excitations.
An important question concerns the extent to which slave mean-field theories can capture the stability of the Hund's metal, and its properties including the emergence of a bad metal above some coherence temperature, T*.
In a single-band Hubbard model, the strongly correlated metallic phase that occurs in proximity to a Mott insulator is associated with a small quasi-particle weight and suppression of double occupancy, reflecting suppressed charge fluctuations. This is captured by slave-boson mean-field theory, including the small coherence temperature.
In contrast, to a "Mott metal", a Hund's metal is associated with suppression of singlet spin fluctuations on different orbitals, without suppression of charge fluctuations and is seen in a Z_2 slave-spin mean-field theory at zero temperature.
Specific questions are whether slave mean-field theories at finite temperature can capture the following?
- The coherence temperature, T*.
- A suppression of spin singlet fluctuations at T increases towards T*.
- An orbital-selective bad metal may occur in proximity to an orbital selective Mott transition. This is where at least one band (orbital) is a Fermi liquid and another is a bad metal. This would mean that there are two different coherence temperatures.
- The emergence of a single low-energy scale, common in both bands, as is seen in DMFT.
- The spin-freezing temperature.
Figures in this post suggest that the Hund's physics is more pronounced with increasing the number of orbitals. However, that may be because the critical U (and thus proximity to the Mott insulator) changes with the number of orbitals and all the curves are for the same U.
Hi, I would like to introduce the following paper:
ReplyDelete"Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Plus Numerical Renormalization-Group Study of Spin-Orbital Separation in a Three-Band Hund Metal"
K. M. Stadler, Z. P. Yin, J. von Delft, G. Kotliar, and A. Weichselbaum
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.136401
I wish this paper would answer some of questions on so-called "spin freezing".
Thanks for recommending that nice paper. I am actually reading it and hope to write something about it soon.
DeleteRoss, do you know of good review articles that introduce the paradigm of Hund's metals/physics for those that are unfamiliar? There are numerous papers for the case of Mott-type insulators, but I am unfamiliar with the Hund's coupling case.
ReplyDeleteRoss probably has better references, but I found the following two articles useful:
Delete[1] A. Georges, L. de' Medici, and J. Mravlje, Ann Rev Condens Matter Phys 4, 137 (2013).
[2] L. Fanfarillo and E. Bascones, Phys Rev B 92, 075136 (2015).
Thanks Ray.
DeleteI think [1] is a very nice article and an excellent introduction.