Non-Fermi-liquid behavior from dynamical effects of impurity scattering in correlated Fermi liquids

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关键词: HEAVY FERMIONS;    ELECTRON;    SYSTEMS;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.88.195120

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

The interplay of disorder and interactions is a subject of perennial interest. In this work, we have investigated the effect of disorder due to chemical substitution on the dynamics and transport properties of correlated Fermi liquids. A low-frequency analysis in the concentrated and dilute limits shows that the dynamical local potentials arising through disorder averaging generate a linear (in frequency) term in the scattering rate. Such non-Fermi-liquid behavior (nFL) is investigated in detail for Kondo hole substitution in heavy fermions within dynamical mean field theory. We find closed-form expressions for the dependence of the static and linear terms in the scattering rate on substitutional disorder and model parameters. We argue that the low-temperature resistivity will acquire a linear in temperature term, and show that the Drude peak structure in the optical conductivity will disappear beyond a certain disorder pc, that marks the crossover from lattice coherent to single-impurity behavior. A full numerical solution of the dynamical mean field theory equations reveals that the nFL term will show up significantly only in certain regimes, although it is present for any nonzero disorder concentration in principle. We highlight the dramatic changes that occur in the quasiparticle scattering rate in the proximity of pc. Remarkably, we find that the nFL behavior due to dynamical effects of impurity scattering has features that are distinct from those arising through Griffiths singularities or distribution of Kondo scales. Relevance of our findings to experiments on alloyed correlated systems is pointed out.

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