@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{SeiboldBenfattoCastellani, author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Benfatto, Lara and Castellani, Claudio}, title = {Application of the Mattis-Bardeen theory in strongly disordered superconductors}, series = {Physical Review B}, volume = {96}, journal = {Physical Review B}, number = {14}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.96.144507}, pages = {144507}, abstract = {The low-energy optical conductivity of conventional superconductors is usually well described by Mattis-Bardeen (MB) theory, which predicts the onset of absorption above an energy corresponding to twice the superconducing (SC) gap parameter Δ. Recent experiments on strongly disordered superconductors have challenged the application of the MB formulas due to the occurrence of additional spectral weight at low energies below 2Δ. Here we identify three crucial items that have to be included in the analysis of optical-conductivity data for these systems: (a) the correct identification of the optical threshold in the Mattis-Bardeen theory and its relation with the gap value extracted from the measured density of states, (b) the gauge-invariant evaluation of the current-current response function needed to account for the optical absorption by SC collective modes, and (c) the inclusion into the MB formula of the energy dependence of the density of states present already above Tc. By computing the optical conductivity in the disordered attractive Hubbard model, we analyze the relevance of all these items, and we provide a compelling scheme for the analysis and interpretation of the optical data in real materials.}, language = {en} } @misc{NoatschkHofmannDabrowskietal., author = {Noatschk, Katharina and Hofmann, E. V. S. and Dabrowski, J. and Curson, N. J. and Schr{\"o}der, Thomas and Klesse, Wolfgang Matthias and Seibold, G{\"o}tz}, title = {Ge(001) surface reconstruction with Sn impurities}, series = {Surface Science}, volume = {713}, journal = {Surface Science}, doi = {10.1016/j.susc.2021.121912}, pages = {1 -- 8}, abstract = {Defects play an important role for surface reconstructions and therefore also influence the substrate growth. In this work we present a first principle calculation for the Ge(001) surface without and with tin impurities incorporated into the top surface layer. By mapping the system onto an Ising-type model, with interaction constants taken from density functional theory, the stability of the surface reconstructions under the influence of different concentrations of tin impurities is explored. This approach allows us to simulate the possible phase transitions for the different surface reconstructions including the local structure around the tin impurity atoms. In addition, we compare our theoretical results with experimental STM images on clean and Sn-doped Ge(100) surfaces.}, language = {en} } @misc{OelsenDiCioloLorenzanaetal., author = {Oelsen, E. von and Di Ciolo, A. and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e} and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Phonon renormalization from local and transitive electron-latticecouplings in strongly correlated systems}, language = {en} } @article{LorenzanaSeiboldOrtixetal., author = {Lorenzana, Jos{\´e} and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Ortix, C. and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Competing orders in FeAs layers}, language = {en} } @misc{TeaCastellaniSeiboldetal., author = {Tea, C. and Castellani, Claudio and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Benfatto, Lara}, title = {Nonrelativistic Dynamics of the Amplitude (Higgs) Mode in Superconductors}, series = {Physical Review Letters}, volume = {115}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, issn = {1079-7114}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.157002}, pages = {157002}, language = {en} } @misc{DiCioloLorenzanaGrillietal., author = {Di Ciolo, A. and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e} and Grilli, Marco and Seibold, G{\"o}tz}, title = {Charge instabilities and electron-phonon interaction in the Hubbard-Holstein model}, series = {Physical Review B}, volume = {79}, journal = {Physical Review B}, issn = {1550-235X}, pages = {085101}, 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{LemarieKamlapureBenfattoetal., author = {Lemari{\´e}, Gabriel and Kamlapure, Anand and Benfatto, Lara and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e} and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Ganguli, S. C. and Raychaudhuri, Pratap and Castellani, Claudio}, title = {Universal scaling of the order-parameter distribution in strongly disordered superconductors}, series = {Physical Review B}, volume = {87}, journal = {Physical Review B}, number = {18}, issn = {2469-9977}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.87.184509}, pages = {184509}, abstract = {We investigate theoretically and experimentally the statistical properties of the inhomogeneous order-parameter distribution (OPD) at the verge of the superconductor-insulator transition (SIT). We find within two prototype fermionic and bosonic models for disordered superconductors that one can identify a universal rescaling of the OPD. By performing scanning-tunneling microscopy experiments in three samples of NbN with increasing disorder we show that such a rescaling also describes the experimental data with excellent accuracy. These results can provide a breakthrough in our understanding of the SIT.}, language = {en} } @misc{MondalKumarChandetal., author = {Mondal, Mintu and Kumar, Sanjeev and Chand, Madhavi and Kamlapure, Anand and Saraswat, Garima and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Benfatto, Lara and Raychaudhuri, Pratap}, title = {Role of the Vortex-Core Energy on the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Thin Films of NbN}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.217003}, 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} } @article{SeiboldBeccaLorenzana, author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Becca, Federico and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e}}, title = {Time dependent Gutzwiller theory of pairing fluctuations in the Hubbard model}, series = {Physical Review B}, volume = {78}, journal = {Physical Review B}, issn = {0556-2805}, pages = {045114}, language = {en} } @article{LorenzanaSeibold, author = {Lorenzana, Jos{\´e} and Seibold, G{\"o}tz}, title = {Unified description of charge and spin excitations of stripes in cuprates}, language = {en} } @article{DiCioloLorenzanaSeiboldetal., author = {Di Ciolo, A. and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e} and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Grilli, Marco}, title = {Paramagnetic stripes in cuprates: charge inhomogeneity coexisting with large Fermi surfaces}, 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} } @article{SeiboldBeccaLorenzana, author = {Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Becca, Federico and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e}}, title = {Inhomogeneous Gutzwiller approximation with random phase fluctuationsfor the Hubbard model}, language = {en} } @article{GuentherSeiboldLorenzana, author = {Guenther, Falk and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Lorenzana, Jos{\´e}}, title = {Quantum Lifshitz point in the infinite dimensional Hubbard model}, language = {en} } @misc{BillHizhnyakovKremeretal., author = {Bill, Andreas and Hizhnyakov, Vladimir and Kremer, Reinhard K. and Seibold, G{\"o}tz and Shelkan, Aleksander and Sherman, Aleksei}, title = {Phase Separation and Pairing Fluctuations in Oxide Materials}, series = {Condensed Matter}, volume = {5}, journal = {Condensed Matter}, number = {4}, issn = {2410-3896}, doi = {10.3390/condmat5040065}, pages = {23}, abstract = {The microscopic mechanism of charge instabilities and the formation of inhomogeneous states in systems with strong electron correlations is investigated. We demonstrate that within a strong coupling expansion the single-band Hubbard model shows an instability towards phase separation and extend the approach also for an analysis of phase separation in the Hubbard-Kanamori hamiltonian as a prototypical multiband model. We study the pairing fluctuations on top of an inhomogeneous stripe state where superconducting correlations in the extended s-wave and d-wave channels correspond to (anti)bound states in the two-particle spectra. Whereas extended s-wave fluctuations are relevant on the scale of the local interaction parameter U, we find that d-wave fluctuations are pronounced in the energy range of the active subband which crosses the Fermi level. As a result, low energy spin and charge fluctuations can transfer the d-wave correlations from the bound states to the low energy quasiparticle bands. Our investigations therefore help to understand the coexistence of stripe correlations and d-wave superconductivity in cuprates.}, 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{NoatschkMartensSeibold, author = {Noatschk, Katharina and Martens, Christian and Seibold, G{\"o}tz}, title = {Time-Dependent Gutzwiller Approximation: Theory and Applications}, series = {Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism}, volume = {33}, journal = {Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism}, number = {8}, doi = {10.1007/s10948-019-05406-z}, pages = {2389 -- 2393}, abstract = {The time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation is rederived on the basis of a variational wave function which is a direct product of a Slater determinant and a coherent state. The latter can be related to the slave-boson formulation by Kotliar and Ruckenstein, and our approach offers a convenient way to generalize the theory towards the implementation of symmetry-broken states and the study of non-equilibrium phenomena. We discuss the concept with regard to applications in the linear response limit and for quenched antiferromagnetic order for which we evaluate the optical conductivity in non-equilibrium situations.}, language = {en} }