@misc{CapraraDiCastroMirarchietal., author = {Caprara, Sergio and Di Castro, Carlo and Mirarchi, Giovanni and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Dissipation-driven strange metal behavior}, series = {Communications Physics}, journal = {Communications Physics}, number = {5}, issn = {2399-3650}, doi = {10.1038/s42005-021-00786-y}, pages = {1 -- 7}, abstract = {Anomalous metallic properties are often observed in the proximity of quantum critical points, with violation of the Fermi Liquid paradigm. We propose a scenario where, near the quantum critical point, dynamical fluctuations of the order parameter with finite correlation length mediate a nearly isotropic scattering among the quasiparticles over the entire Fermi surface. This scattering produces a strange metallic behavior, which is extended to the lowest temperatures by an increase of the damping of the fluctuations. We phenomenologically identify one single parameter ruling this increasing damping when the temperature decreases, accounting for both the linear-in-temperature resistivity and the seemingly divergent specific heat observed, e.g., in high-temperature superconducting cuprates and some heavy-fermion metals.}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldArpaiaYingYingetal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Arpaia, Riccardo and Ying Ying, Peng and Fumagalli, Roberto and Braicovich, Lucio and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco and Ghiringhelli, Giacomo Claudio and Caprara, Sergio}, title = {Strange metal behaviour from charge density fluctuations in cuprates}, series = {Communications Physics}, volume = {4}, journal = {Communications Physics}, issn = {2399-3650}, doi = {10.1038/s42005-020-00505-z}, pages = {1 -- 6}, abstract = {Besides the mechanism responsible for high critical temperature superconductivity, the grand unresolved issue of the cuprates is the occurrence of a strange metallic state above the so-called pseudogap temperature T*. Even though such state has been successfully described within a phenomenological scheme, the so-called Marginal Fermi-Liquid theory, a microscopic explanation is still missing. However, recent resonant X-ray scattering experiments identified a new class of charge density fluctuations characterized by low characteristic energies and short correlation lengths, which are related to the well-known charge density waves. These fluctuations are present over a wide region of the temperature-vs-doping phase diagram and extend well above T*. Here we investigate the consequences of charge density fluctuations on the electron and transport properties and find that they can explain the strange metal phenomenology. Therefore, charge density fluctuations are likely the long-sought microscopic mechanism underlying the peculiarities of the metallic state of cuprates.}, language = {en} } @misc{MirarchiSeiboldDiCastroetal., author = {Mirarchi, Giovanni and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco and Caprara, Sergio}, title = {The Strange-Metal Behavior of Cuprates}, series = {Condensed Matter}, volume = {7}, journal = {Condensed Matter}, number = {1}, issn = {2410-3896}, doi = {10.3390/condmat7010029}, pages = {1 -- 17}, abstract = {Recent resonant X-ray scattering experiments on cuprates allowed to identify a new kind of collective excitations, known as charge density fluctuations, which have finite characteristic wave vector, short correlation length and small characteristic energy. It was then shown that these fluctuations provide a microscopic scattering mechanism that accounts for the anomalous transport properties of cuprates in the so-called strange-metal phase and are a source of anomalies in the specific heat. In this work, we retrace the main steps that led us to attributing a central role to charge density fluctuations in the strange-metal phase of cuprates, discuss the state of the art on the issue and provide an in-depth analysis of the contribution of charge density fluctuations to the specific heat.}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldBeccaBuccietal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Becca, Federico and Bucci, F. and Castellani, Claudio and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Spectral properties of incommensurate charge-density wave systems}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldCastellaniDiCastro, author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Castellani, Claudio and Di Castro, Carlo}, title = {Fermi surface and electronic structure of incommensurate charge-density-wave systems}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldCapatiGrillietal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Capati, Matteo and Grilli, Marco and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e}}, title = {Hidden ferronematic order in underdoped cuprates}, series = {Physical Review B}, volume = {87}, journal = {Physical Review B}, number = {3}, issn = {2469-9969}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.87.035138}, pages = {035138}, abstract = {We study a model for low-doped cuprates where holes aggregate into oriented stripe segments which have a magnetic vortex and antivortex at the extremes. We argue that due to the interaction between segments a ferronematic state with macroscopic polarization is stabilized. This state can be characterized as a charge nematic which, due to the net polarization, breaks inversion symmetry and also exhibits an incommensurate spin modulation. Our calculation can reproduce the doping-dependent spin structure factor of lanthanum cuprates in excellent agreement with experiment and allows to rationalize experiments in which the incommensurability has an order-parameter-like temperature dependence.}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldDiCastroGrillietal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e}}, title = {Spin excitations of ferronematic order in underdoped cuprate superconductors}, series = {Scientific reports}, journal = {Scientific reports}, number = {4}, issn = {2045-2322}, doi = {10.1038/srep05319}, pages = {5319}, abstract = {High-temperature superconductors exhibit a characteristic hourglass-shaped spectrum of magnetic fluctuations which most likely contribute to the pairing glue in the cuprates. Recent neutron scattering experiments in strongly underdoped compounds have revealed a significant low energy anisotropy of these fluctuations which we explain by a model in which topological defects of the antiferromagnet clump to producing domain wall segments with ferronematic order. This state does not invoke global charge order but breaks C4 rotational and inversion symmetry. The incommensurability of the low doping charge-disordered state is in good agreement with experiment and interpolates smoothly with the incommensurability of the stripe phase at higher doping. Within linear spin-wave theory the dynamic structure factor is in very good agreement with inelastic neutron scattering data and can account for the observed energy dependent anisotropy.}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldCastellaniDiCastroetal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Castellani, Claudio and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Fermi surface and photoemission lineshape of incommensurate CDW systems}, language = {en} } @incollection{SeiboldCastellaniDiCastroetal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Castellani, Claudio and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Domain wall structures in the two-dimensional Hubbard modelwith long-range Coulomb interaction}, series = {Stripes and Related Phenomena}, booktitle = {Stripes and Related Phenomena}, editor = {Bianconi, Antonio and Saini, Naurang L.}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Plenum}, address = {New York}, isbn = {0-306-46419-5}, doi = {10.1007/0-306-47100-0_18}, pages = {151 -- 157}, language = {en} } @misc{SeiboldCastellaniDiCastroetal., author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Castellani, Claudio and Di Castro, Carlo and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Striped phases in the two-dimensional Hubbard model with long-rangeCoulomb interaction}, language = {en} }