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Instanton Sector of Correlated Electron Systems as the Origin of Populated Pseudo-gap and Flat “Band” Behavior: Analytic Solution

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Finite temperature instantons between meta-stable vacua of correlated electronic system are solved analytically for quasi one-dimensional Hubbard model. The instantons produce dynamic symmetry breaking and connect metallic state with the dual vacua: superconducting (SC) and spin-density wave (SDW) states. The instantons spread along the Matsubara’s imaginary time and possess the structure similar to the coordinate-space solitonic lattices previously discovered in quasi one-dimensional Peierls model. On the microscopic level the inter-vacua excursion is described by mutual transformations between the “resonating quartets” of the couples of electron–hole and Cooper pairs. Spectral properties of the electrons in the “instantonic crystal” reveal pseudo-gap (PG) behavior, with finite fermionic density of states in the center of the PG and “flat-band” outside of it. Analytically derived inverse temperature scaling of the pseudo-gap and the densities of the SC and SDW condensates is discussed in the context of ARPES and STM data in high-Tc cuprates.

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Mukhin, S.I. Instanton Sector of Correlated Electron Systems as the Origin of Populated Pseudo-gap and Flat “Band” Behavior: Analytic Solution. J Supercond Nov Magn 22, 75–80 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-008-0358-4

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