Singularity in self-energy and composite fermion excitations of interacting electrons
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Abstract
We propose that a composite fermion operator $f_{i\sigma}(2n_{i{\bar \sigma}}-1)$ could have coherent excitations, where $f_{i\sigma}$ is the fermion operator for interacting electrons and $n_{i{\bar \sigma}}$ is the number operator of the opposite spin. In the two-impurity Anderson model, it is found that the excitation of this composite fermion has a pseudogap in the Kondo regime, and has a finite spectral weight in the regime where the excitation of the regular fermion $f_{i\sigma}$ has a pseudogap. In the latter regime, the self-energy of $f_{i\sigma}$ is found to be singular near Fermi energy. We argue that this composite fermion could develop a Fermi surface with Fermi liquid behaviors but ``hidden'' from charge excitations in lattice generalizations. We further illustrate that this type of excitations is essential in addressing the pseudogap state and unconventional superconductivity.
*This work was supported by the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. DOE at LANL under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396, the U.S. DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, the LANL LDRD Program, and the DOE CINT at LANL.