Electronic self-energy and triplet pairing fluctuations in the vicinity of a ferromagnetic instability in 2D systems: the quasistatic approach

TL;DR

This paper investigates the non-Fermi liquid behavior, spectral features, and triplet pairing fluctuations in 2D ferromagnetic systems near quantum criticality using a quasistatic approach, revealing non-trivial effects of strong fluctuations.

Contribution

It introduces a quasistatic framework to analyze spectral functions, self-energy, and pairing in 2D ferromagnetic systems near criticality, highlighting non-Fermi liquid behavior and Fermi surface quasi-splitting.

Findings

Non-Fermi liquid self-energy form near the Fermi level at low T

Spectral functions exhibit a two-peak structure indicating quasi-splitting

Triplet pairing amplitude increases with correlation length, with vertex corrections becoming significant at low T

Abstract

The self-energy, spectral functions and susceptibilities of 2D systems with strong ferromagnetic fluctuations are considered within the quasistatic approach. The self-energy at low temperatures T has a non-Fermi liquid form in the energy window w<Delta near the Fermi level, where Delta is the ground-state spin splitting for magnetically ordered ground state, and Delta ~ T^(1/2) ln^(1/2)(vF/T) in the quantum critical regime (vF is the Fermi velocity). Spectral functions have a two-peak structure at finite T above the magnetically ordered ground state, which implies quasi-splitting of the Fermi surface in the paramagnetic phase in the presence of strong ferromagnetic fluctuations. The triplet pairing amplitude in the quasistatic approximation increases with increasing correlation length; at low temperatures T<<Delta the vertex corrections become important and the Eliashberg approach is not justified. The results for the spectral properties and susceptibilities in the quantum critical regime near charge- (spin-) instabilities with large enough correlation length xi>>(T/vF)^(-1/3) are obtained.