TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of Non-Fermi Liquid Physics in a Quantum Critical Metal via Quantum Loop Topography
AU - Driskell, George
AU - Lederer, Samuel
AU - Bauer, Carsten
AU - Trebst, Simon
AU - Kim, Eun Ah
N1 - Funding Information:
S. L. and E.-A. K. acknowledge the support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Science and Engineering under Award No. DE-SC0018946. The Cologne group acknowledges partial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), Projektnummer 277101999, TRR 183 (project B01). The numerical simulations were performed on the JUWELS cluster at FZ Jülich and the CHEOPS cluster at Regional Computing Centre Cologne.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Physical Society.
PY - 2021/7/23
Y1 - 2021/7/23
N2 - Non-Fermi liquid physics is ubiquitous in strongly correlated metals, manifesting itself in anomalous transport properties, such as a T-linear resistivity in experiments. However, its theoretical understanding in terms of microscopic models is lacking, despite decades of conceptual work and attempted numerical simulations. Here we demonstrate that a combination of sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo sampling and quantum loop topography, a physics-inspired machine-learning approach, can map out the emergence of non-Fermi liquid physics in the vicinity of a quantum critical point (QCP) with little prior knowledge. Using only three parameter points for training the underlying neural network, we are able to robustly identify a stable non-Fermi liquid regime tracing the fans of metallic QCPs at the onset of both spin-density wave and nematic order. In particular, we establish for the first time that a spin-density wave QCP commands a wide fan of non-Fermi liquid region that funnels into the quantum critical point. Our study thereby provides an important proof-of-principle example that new physics can be detected via unbiased machine-learning approaches.
AB - Non-Fermi liquid physics is ubiquitous in strongly correlated metals, manifesting itself in anomalous transport properties, such as a T-linear resistivity in experiments. However, its theoretical understanding in terms of microscopic models is lacking, despite decades of conceptual work and attempted numerical simulations. Here we demonstrate that a combination of sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo sampling and quantum loop topography, a physics-inspired machine-learning approach, can map out the emergence of non-Fermi liquid physics in the vicinity of a quantum critical point (QCP) with little prior knowledge. Using only three parameter points for training the underlying neural network, we are able to robustly identify a stable non-Fermi liquid regime tracing the fans of metallic QCPs at the onset of both spin-density wave and nematic order. In particular, we establish for the first time that a spin-density wave QCP commands a wide fan of non-Fermi liquid region that funnels into the quantum critical point. Our study thereby provides an important proof-of-principle example that new physics can be detected via unbiased machine-learning approaches.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.046601
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.046601
M3 - Article
C2 - 34355923
AN - SCOPUS:85111478462
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 127
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 4
M1 - 046601
ER -