Strange metallicity and Planckian dissipation due to a heavy Fermion quantum critical point

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Abstract

We present a cellular dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) plus Numerical Renormalization Group approach to study quantum criticality in the periodic Anderson model (PAM). The CDMFT phase diagram of the PAM contains a Kondo breakdown (KB) quantum critical point (QCP). At zero temperature, this KB-QCP marks a continuous transition between two Fermi liquid phases, which differ in their Fermi surface volumes. At non-zero temperatures in the vicinity of the QCP, we find a non-Fermi liquid regime which features strange metal like features such as a linear-in-T resistivity or a logarithmic temperature dependence of the Sommerfeld coefficient. We discuss the properties of this non-Fermi liquid regime and in particular also show that the longest lived coherent excitations have an exactly Planckian lifetime.

* This work was funded in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under Germany's Excellence Strategy EXC-2111 (Project No. 390814868). It is part of the Munich Quantum Valley, supported by the Bavarian state government with funds from the Hightech Agenda Bayern Plus.

Presenters

  • Andreas Gleis

    LMU Munich

Authors

  • Andreas Gleis

    LMU Munich

  • Seung-Sup B. Lee

    Seoul National University

  • Gabriel Kotliar

    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Physics and Astronomy Department, Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University

  • Jan von Delft

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Mun