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Correlated Phases in Quantum Materials

Technical University of Munich, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

TUM School of Natural Sciences

James-Franck-Str. 1

85748 Garching b. München

l.classen[at]tum.de

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We are excited about the emergent phenomena in many-body systems that arise due to the collective interplay of particles in the quantum world.

Description

Research focus: Quantum many-body theory, correlated electrons, superconductivity, quantum criticality

The goal of our research is to understand fundamental, physical processes in quantum materials and the identification of universal aspects among them with a focus on the collective behavior of interacting electrons.

This collective behavior gives rise to many fascinating phases of matter such as unconventional forms of superconductivity or magnetism. We seek to explain the underlying mechanisms behind the phase formation, and to characterise the phase transitions and properties of different phases.

To do so we use different field-theoretical methods applied to microscopic and effective models inspired by experimental observations.

Publications

Van Hove singularities and competing instabilities in an altermagnetic metal

P. Rao, J. Knolle, L. Classen

Physical Review B 112 (23), 235140 (2025).

Show Abstract

Van Hove (VH) singularities in the single-particle band spectrum are important for interaction-driven quantum phases. Whereas VH points are usually spin-degenerate, in newly proposed altermagnets VH singularities can become spin-dependent, due to momentum-dependent spin polarization of the Fermi surfaces arising from combined rotation and time-reversal symmetry. We consider two altermagnetic models (dx2-y2- and dxy-wave) on a square lattice with spin-polarized VH points, and study their stable fixed-point solutions indicating interaction-induced instabilities using parquet renormalization group. For both models, we find new stable fixed-point solutions of the renormalization group equations which are not connected to the solution in the spin-degenerate limit. This implies that on the square lattice, the system with VH singularities is unstable with respect to altermagnetic perturbations. The leading instability for the dx2-y2 model is real transverse spin density wave. For the dxy-wave model, it is found to be real transverse spin density wave at large altermagnetic splitting. At small altermagnetic splitting both imaginary charge density wave and real longitudinal spin density waves are dominant.

10.1103/zfk4-rxh1

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