SciPost Phys. 10, 067 (2021) ·
published 12 March 2021
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We study a model in 2+1 dimensions composed of a Fermi surface of $N_f$
flavors of fermions coupled to scalar fluctuations near quantum critical points
(QCPs). The $N_f\rightarrow0$ limit allows us to non-perturbatively calculate
the long-range behavior of fermion correlation functions. We use this to
calculate charge, spin and pair susceptibilities near different QCPs at zero
and finite temperatures, with zero and finite order parameter gaps. While
fluctuations smear out the fermionic quasiparticles, we find QCPs where the
overall effect of fluctuations leads to enhanced pairing. We also find QCPs
where the fluctuations induce spin and charge density wave instabilities for a
finite interval of order parameter fluctuation gaps at $T=0$. We restore a
subset of the diagrams suppressed in the $N_f\rightarrow0$ limit, all diagrams
with internal fermion loops with at most 2 vertices, and find that this does
not change the long-range behavior of correlators except right at the QCPs.
SciPost Phys. 4, 015 (2018) ·
published 27 March 2018
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We study a model in 1+2 dimensions composed of a spherical Fermi surface of
$N_f$ flavors of fermions coupled to a massless scalar. We present a framework
to non-perturbatively calculate general fermion $n$-point functions of this
theory in the limit $N_f\rightarrow0$ followed by $k_F\rightarrow\infty$ where
$k_F$ sets both the size and curvature of the Fermi surface. Using this
framework we calculate the zero-temperature fermion density-density correlation
function in real space and find an exponential decay of Friedel oscillations.
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