Probing quasiparticle excitations in a doped Mott insulator via Friedel oscillations

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Anurag, Pangburn, Emile, Pépin, Catherine, Bena, Cristina
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Published: 2025
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author Banerjee, Anurag
Pangburn, Emile
Pépin, Catherine
Bena, Cristina
author_facet Banerjee, Anurag
Pangburn, Emile
Pépin, Catherine
Bena, Cristina
contents In this work, we investigate impurity-induced Friedel oscillations in the doped two-dimensional Hubbard model, focusing on the role of holon and doublon excitations. We show that weak impurities, due to the non-fermionic nature of the underlying quasiparticles, induce Friedel oscillations whose behavior is consistent with an effective non-interacting theory for these quasiparticles, and whose wavevector reflects the violation of Luttinger's theorem. At larger impurity strength, the system transitions to a phase-separated state composed of coexisting Mott-insulating (half-filled) and hole-rich regions. Within the composite operator framework, this phase separation arises from a competition between the kinetic energy of holons and the tendency to form tightly bound holon-doublon pairs. Our results offer new insights into the nature of charge carriers and the emergent electronic phases in the doped Mott regime.
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spellingShingle Probing quasiparticle excitations in a doped Mott insulator via Friedel oscillations
Banerjee, Anurag
Pangburn, Emile
Pépin, Catherine
Bena, Cristina
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
In this work, we investigate impurity-induced Friedel oscillations in the doped two-dimensional Hubbard model, focusing on the role of holon and doublon excitations. We show that weak impurities, due to the non-fermionic nature of the underlying quasiparticles, induce Friedel oscillations whose behavior is consistent with an effective non-interacting theory for these quasiparticles, and whose wavevector reflects the violation of Luttinger's theorem. At larger impurity strength, the system transitions to a phase-separated state composed of coexisting Mott-insulating (half-filled) and hole-rich regions. Within the composite operator framework, this phase separation arises from a competition between the kinetic energy of holons and the tendency to form tightly bound holon-doublon pairs. Our results offer new insights into the nature of charge carriers and the emergent electronic phases in the doped Mott regime.
title Probing quasiparticle excitations in a doped Mott insulator via Friedel oscillations
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24300