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Anomalous Normal-State Properties of High-Tc Superconductors -- Intrinsic Properties of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems?

Th. Pruschke, M. Jarrell, J. K. Freericks

supr-conarXiv:supr-con/9502001

Abstract

A systematic study of optical and transport properties of the Hubbard model, based on Metzner and Vollhardt's dynamical mean-field approximation, is reviewed. This model shows interesting anomalous properties that are, in our opinion, ubiquitous to single-band strongly correlated systems (for all spatial dimensions greater than one), and also compare qualitatively with many anomalous transport features of the high-Tc cuprates. This anomalous behavior of the normal-state properties is traced to a ``collective single-band Kondo effect,'' in which a quasiparticle resonance forms at the Fermi level as the temperature is lowered, ultimately yielding a strongly renormalized Fermi liquid at zero temperature.

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