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SUBMITTER: Punk M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4534260 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Punk Matthias M Allais Andrea A Sachdev Subir S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150720 31
We propose a quantum dimer model for the metallic state of the hole-doped cuprates at low hole density, p. The Hilbert space is spanned by spinless, neutral, bosonic dimers and spin S = 1/2, charge +e fermionic dimers. The model realizes a "fractionalized Fermi liquid" with no symmetry breaking and small hole pocket Fermi surfaces enclosing a total area determined by p. Exact diagonalization, on lattices of sizes up to 8 × 8, shows anisotropic quasiparticle residue around the pocket Fermi surfac ...[more]