Hybridizing localized and itinerant electrons: A recipe for pseudogaps

作者:Winograd E A*; de' Medici L
来源:Physical Review B, 2014, 89(8): 085127.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.085127

摘要

In a system where selective Mott localization is realized, some electrons show a gap to charge excitations while others do not. A hybridization between these two kind of electrons will lead to a smoothening of this sharp difference and can even bring the system back to a complete delocalization. We show here that there is a large region of parameters at finite hybridization where the selective localization persists and the system shows a partial filling of the selective gap with incoherent states, giving rise to a pseudogap. This result is illustrated here in a two-orbital Hubbard model with Hund's coupling, but is based on quite general assumptions and should hold for a larger class of systems, and possibly be a paradigm for the pseudogap mechanism in cuprates.

  • 出版日期2014-2-24