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arxiv: 2411.03419 · v2 · submitted 2024-11-05 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.quant-gas

Geometric orthogonal metals: Hidden antiferromagnetism and pseudogap from fluctuating stripes

Henning Schl\"omer , Annabelle Bohrdt , Fabian Grusdt This is my paper

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keywords cupratespseudogaporthogonal metalsfluctuating stripeshidden orderantiferromagnetismsmall Fermi surfacedomain walls
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Fluctuating domain walls in doped cuprates generate a geometric orthogonal metal with hidden antiferromagnetic order that produces a small Fermi surface without symmetry breaking.

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The paper proposes that the pseudogap phase in hole-doped cuprates arises from a geometric orthogonal metal driven by fluctuating stripes. Charge fluctuations stabilize proliferating domain walls that form a string-net condensate, obscuring antiferromagnetic order in real space while preserving it relative to background spins. This allows magnetic polarons to exist as well-defined quasiparticles that couple to Z2 excitations, forming a small Fermi surface without symmetry breaking. The framework connects antiferromagnetic, stripe, and pseudogap phases, with a transition to a Fermi liquid at a hidden quantum critical point as doping increases.

Core claim

The central claim is that an orthogonal metal with geometric origin emerges from the proliferation of domain walls stabilized by charge fluctuations. These domain walls obscure underlying long-range antiferromagnetic order in real-space but preserve order in the reference frame of the background spins. Well-defined fermionic quasiparticles as magnetic polarons couple to Z2 topological excitations of the domain wall string-net condensate, constituting a small Fermi surface. At critical doping, hidden order is lost at a hidden quantum critical point.

What carries the argument

Domain wall string-net condensate whose Z2 topological excitations couple to magnetic polarons to realize hidden order.

If this is right

  • Establishes a deep connection between the antiferromagnetic, stripe, and pseudogap phases.
  • At a critical doping value hidden order is lost, driving a transition to a regular Fermi liquid at a hidden quantum critical point featuring quantum critical transport properties.
  • Suggests a possible unification of superconductivity in electron and hole doped cuprates and heavy fermion compounds.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar hidden-order mechanisms from fluctuating domain walls could apply to other doped Mott insulators that show small Fermi surfaces.
  • Spin-frame-sensitive probes such as certain polarized neutron or NMR experiments might reveal the preserved antiferromagnetic order that is invisible in real-space measurements.
  • The framework predicts that electron-doped cuprates should exhibit an analogous hidden quantum critical point separating pseudogap-like behavior from a Fermi liquid.

Load-bearing premise

Charge fluctuations must produce a proliferating domain-wall string-net condensate whose Z2 topological excitations couple to magnetic polarons to yield a small Fermi surface without symmetry breaking.

What would settle it

ARPES measurements showing an abrupt change from small to large Fermi surface without accompanying quantum critical transport signatures at the doping where the pseudogap closes would falsify the hidden-order transition.

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One of the key features of hole-doped cuprates is the presence of an extended pseudogap phase, whose microscopic origin has been the subject of intense investigation since its discovery and is believed to be crucial for understanding high-temperature superconductivity. Various explanations have been proposed for the pseudogap, including links to symmetry-breaking orders such as stripes or pairing, and the emergence of novel fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) and orthogonal metal (OM) phases. The topological nature of FL* and OM phases has been identified as scenarios compatible with a small Fermi surface without symmetry breaking, as suggested experimentally. With recent experimental and numerical studies supporting an intricate relationship between stripe order and the pseudogap phase, we here propose an alternative scenario: an orthogonal metal with a geometric origin (GOM) driven by fluctuating domain walls. The essential mechanism behind our proposal is hidden order, where the proliferation of domain walls stabilized by charge fluctuations obscures the underlying long-range antiferromagnetic order in real-space, but order is preserved in the reference frame of the background spins. As a result, well-defined fermionic quasiparticles in the form of magnetic polarons exist, which couple to $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological excitations of the domain wall string-net condensate in the ground state and constitute a small Fermi surface. At a critical doping value, we argue that hidden order is lost, driving a transition to a regular Fermi liquid at a hidden quantum critical point (hQCP) featuring quantum critical transport properties. Our GOM framework establishes a deep connection between the antiferromagnetic, stripe, and pseudogap phases, and suggests a possible unification of superconductivity in (electron and hole) doped cuprates and heavy fermion compounds.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes a 'geometric orthogonal metal' (GOM) phase in hole-doped cuprates arising from fluctuating domain walls (stripes) stabilized by charge fluctuations. This produces 'hidden order' in which long-range antiferromagnetism is obscured in real space but preserved in the background-spin reference frame; magnetic polarons then couple to Z2 topological excitations of a domain-wall string-net condensate, yielding a small Fermi surface without symmetry breaking. At a critical doping the hidden order is lost at a hidden quantum critical point (hQCP) that connects to a conventional Fermi liquid, thereby linking the antiferromagnetic, stripe, and pseudogap regimes and suggesting a unification with heavy-fermion superconductivity.

Significance. If the proposed mechanism can be realized in a controlled microscopic model, the GOM scenario would supply a concrete route to a small Fermi surface without symmetry breaking that is tied to stripe fluctuations, offering a unified picture of the pseudogap, hidden order, and quantum criticality across cuprates and heavy-fermion systems. The absence of any explicit Hamiltonian, slave-particle construction, string-net wave function, or spectral-function calculation means the central claim remains a qualitative conjecture rather than a derived result.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract (and opening paragraphs): The central claim that charge fluctuations produce a proliferating domain-wall string-net condensate whose Z2 excitations couple to magnetic polarons to generate a small Fermi surface while preserving hidden AF order is asserted but not derived from any microscopic Hamiltonian or effective theory. No slave-particle ansatz, string-net wave function, or spectral-function computation is supplied to demonstrate that the coupling actually produces the claimed small FS without symmetry breaking.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (paragraph on hidden QCP): The transition at the hidden quantum critical point is described as driving a change from GOM to a regular Fermi liquid with quantum-critical transport, yet no controlled limit, renormalization-group analysis, or numerical evidence is given that establishes the existence or location of this hQCP.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract (final paragraph): The unification of superconductivity in electron- and hole-doped cuprates with heavy-fermion compounds is suggested on the basis of the GOM framework, but the manuscript contains no explicit comparison of pairing mechanisms, Fermi-surface topologies, or critical exponents that would substantiate the claimed connection.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed report. The manuscript is a conceptual proposal for a geometric orthogonal metal phase in cuprates, and we address the concerns regarding the lack of explicit derivations by clarifying the scope of the work.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (and opening paragraphs): The central claim that charge fluctuations produce a proliferating domain-wall string-net condensate whose Z2 excitations couple to magnetic polarons to generate a small Fermi surface while preserving hidden AF order is asserted but not derived from any microscopic Hamiltonian or effective theory. No slave-particle ansatz, string-net wave function, or spectral-function computation is supplied to demonstrate that the coupling actually produces the claimed small FS without symmetry breaking.

    Authors: We acknowledge that our manuscript presents this as a proposed scenario rather than a fully derived result from a microscopic model. The GOM phase is motivated by combining known elements: fluctuating stripes leading to domain walls, hidden antiferromagnetism, magnetic polarons, and Z2 topological excitations in a string-net condensate. We will revise the abstract to emphasize that this is a qualitative conjecture inspired by recent experimental and numerical studies on stripes and the pseudogap, with the explicit construction of the wave function or spectral functions being an important direction for future research. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (paragraph on hidden QCP): The transition at the hidden quantum critical point is described as driving a change from GOM to a regular Fermi liquid with quantum-critical transport, yet no controlled limit, renormalization-group analysis, or numerical evidence is given that establishes the existence or location of this hQCP.

    Authors: The hQCP is proposed as the point where the hidden order associated with the domain-wall condensate is lost upon increasing doping, leading to a conventional Fermi liquid. This is argued on phenomenological grounds, linking to the known quantum critical doping in cuprates where the pseudogap ends. While we do not provide a new RG analysis here, the concept builds on existing literature on quantum criticality in these systems. We can add a discussion referencing relevant numerical works on the stripe quantum critical point. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (final paragraph): The unification of superconductivity in electron- and hole-doped cuprates with heavy-fermion compounds is suggested on the basis of the GOM framework, but the manuscript contains no explicit comparison of pairing mechanisms, Fermi-surface topologies, or critical exponents that would substantiate the claimed connection.

    Authors: The unification is suggested as an outlook based on the common appearance of small Fermi surfaces without symmetry breaking and the role of quantum criticality in both classes of materials. We do not claim a detailed mapping of pairing mechanisms or exponents in this work, which focuses on the normal-state physics. We will revise the final paragraph of the abstract to present this as a speculative connection rather than a substantiated unification. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; proposal is qualitative with no explicit derivations or self-referential reductions.

full rationale

The provided abstract and context contain no equations, Hamiltonians, or derivation steps that could be inspected for self-definition, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. The GOM mechanism is presented as a conceptual proposal linking existing stripe and OM ideas to a small FS via hidden order, without any reduction of the central claim to its own inputs by construction. This matches the default expectation of a non-circular conceptual paper; the reader's assessment that circularity cannot be assessed from the abstract is consistent with the absence of load-bearing mathematical steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

Abstract-only review limits detail; the proposal rests on standard condensed-matter assumptions about antiferromagnetic order in parent compounds and introduces new conceptual entities without independent evidence or derivations.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Long-range antiferromagnetic order exists in the undoped parent cuprate compound and can be referenced to background spins even when obscured in real space.
    Invoked as the underlying order that remains preserved in the spin reference frame.
invented entities (2)
  • Geometric orthogonal metal (GOM) no independent evidence
    purpose: Phase that explains the pseudogap via hidden order and small Fermi surface
    Newly proposed mechanism driven by fluctuating domain walls.
  • hidden quantum critical point (hQCP) no independent evidence
    purpose: Doping-driven transition point where hidden order is lost
    Introduced as the point separating GOM from regular Fermi liquid.

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