Patel Niravkumar D, Mukherjee Anamitra, Kaushal Nitin, Moreo Adriana, Dagotto Elbio
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India.
Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Aug 25;119(8):086601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.086601. Epub 2017 Aug 24.
We employ a recently developed computational many-body technique to study for the first time the half-filled Anderson-Hubbard model at finite temperature and arbitrary correlation U and disorder V strengths. Interestingly, the narrow zero temperature metallic range induced by disorder from the Mott insulator expands with increasing temperature in a manner resembling a quantum critical point. Our study of the resistivity temperature scaling T^{α} for this metal reveals non-Fermi liquid characteristics. Moreover, a continuous dependence of α on U and V from linear to nearly quadratic is observed. We argue that these exotic results arise from a systematic change with U and V of the "effective" disorder, a combination of quenched disorder and intrinsic localized spins.