TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum Mott transition and superconductivity
AU - Imada, Masatoshi
PY - 2005/3
Y1 - 2005/3
N2 - The gas-liquid transition is a first-order transition terminating at a finite-temperature critical point with diverging density fluctuations. The Mott transition, a metal-insulator transition driven by Coulomb repulsion between electrons, has been identified with this textbook transition. However, the critical temperature of the Mott transition can be suppressed, leading to unusual quantum criticality, which results in a breakdown of the conventional Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson scheme. This accounts for non-Fermi-liquid-like properties, and strongly momentum-dependent quasiparticles as in many materials near the Mott insulator. Above all, the mode-coupling theory of the density fluctuations supports d-wave superconductivity at the order of 100K for the relevant parameters of copper oxide superconductors.
AB - The gas-liquid transition is a first-order transition terminating at a finite-temperature critical point with diverging density fluctuations. The Mott transition, a metal-insulator transition driven by Coulomb repulsion between electrons, has been identified with this textbook transition. However, the critical temperature of the Mott transition can be suppressed, leading to unusual quantum criticality, which results in a breakdown of the conventional Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson scheme. This accounts for non-Fermi-liquid-like properties, and strongly momentum-dependent quasiparticles as in many materials near the Mott insulator. Above all, the mode-coupling theory of the density fluctuations supports d-wave superconductivity at the order of 100K for the relevant parameters of copper oxide superconductors.
KW - High-T superconductivity
KW - Mott transition
KW - Quantum phase transition
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U2 - 10.1143/JPSJ.74.859
DO - 10.1143/JPSJ.74.859
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:23444461049
VL - 74
SP - 859
EP - 862
JO - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
JF - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
SN - 0031-9015
IS - 3
ER -