Probing a Modified Luttinger Sum Rule in the Strongly Interacting 1D Fermi-Hubbard Model

TL;DR

This paper investigates a crossover in the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model where the Fermi momentum changes, revealing a modified Luttinger sum rule linked to an emergent symmetry, with implications for experimental detection.

Contribution

It introduces a modified Luttinger sum rule in the strongly interacting 1D Fermi-Hubbard model, explaining Fermi momentum changes via an emergent $U(1)$ symmetry.

Findings

Identification of a Fermi momentum crossover in the model

Derivation of a modified Luttinger sum rule

Proposal for experimental observation using ultracold fermions

Abstract

Fermi surface reconstruction in cuprates can lead to an abrupt change in the Fermi momentum $k_F$ between different phases. This phenomenon remains subject of debate and is at the heart of an ongoing discussion about the nature of the metallic state in the pseudogap regime. Here we study a minimal model of a $k_F$ changing crossover in the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model, where a tuning of the onsite interaction leads to a crossover between a spin-$1/2$ Luttinger liquid with small Fermi momentum and a spinless chargon liquid with large Fermi momentum. We attribute this to an emergent $U(1)$ symmetry in the strongly correlated limit, which can be used to derive a modified Luttinger sum rule recovering the large Fermi momentum. We analyse Friedel oscillations at the edge of a system to directly probe the change of Fermi momentum at zero and non-zero temperature. This paves the way for a direct experimental observation of changes of the Fermi momentum using ultracold fermions in a quantum gas microscope, with possible extensions to higher dimensional systems.