Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior and Anomalous Suppression of Landau Damping in Layered Metals Close to Ferromagnetism

Sam P. Ridgway and Chris A. Hooley
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226404 – Published 5 June 2015

Abstract

We analyze the low-energy physics of nearly ferromagnetic metals in two spatial dimensions using the functional renormalization group technique. We find a new low-energy fixed point, at which the fermionic (electronlike) excitations are non-Fermi-liquid (zf=13/10) and the magnetic fluctuations exhibit an anomalous Landau damping whose rate vanishes as Γq|q|3/5 in the low-|q| limit. We discuss this renormalization of the Landau-damping exponent, which is the major novel prediction of our work, and highlight the possible link between that renormalization and neutron-scattering data on UGe2 and related compounds. Implications of our analysis for YFe2Al10 are also discussed.

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  • Received 30 October 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.226404

© 2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Sam P. Ridgway and Chris A. Hooley

  • Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Saint Andrews, North Haugh, Saint Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, United Kingdom

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Vol. 114, Iss. 22 — 5 June 2015

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