Dynamical Planckian scaling of charge response at a particle-hole-asymmetric quantum critical point with Kondo destruction

TL;DR

This paper investigates charge response scaling at a particle-hole-asymmetric quantum critical point with Kondo destruction, revealing dynamical Planckian behavior and implications for heavy-fermion and Mott-Hubbard systems.

Contribution

It introduces a new quantum-critical state with particle-hole asymmetry and demonstrates dynamical Planckian scaling of charge response in this regime.

Findings

Charge response exhibits dynamical Planckian scaling.

Particle-hole asymmetry leads to critical Kondo destruction.

Implications for heavy-fermion and Mott-Hubbard systems discussed.

Abstract

Metallic quantum criticality is a central theme in a variety of strongly correlated systems. Recent experiments have raised the fundamental question of how the charge response can be singular in cases where the Landau framework of quantum criticality allows singularity only in the spin channel. Motivated by this emerging issue, we study the particle-hole-asymmetric regime of a Bose-Fermi Anderson model with power-law forms for both the bosonic bath spectrum and the fermionic band density of states. We realize a particle-hole-asymmetric quantum-critical state where quasiparticles are lost due to a critical destruction of Kondo screening, and demonstrate a dynamical Planckian scaling of the charge response. Implications for a new regime of heavy-fermion quantum criticality and for Mott-Hubbard systems are discussed.