Electrical resistivity near Pomeranchuk instability in two dimensions

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Mar 30;98(13):136402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.136402. Epub 2007 Mar 28.

Abstract

We analyze the dc charge transport in the quantum critical regime near a d-wave Pomeranchuk instability in two dimensions. The transport decay rate is linear in temperature everywhere on the Fermi surface except at cold spots on the Brillouin zone diagonal. For pure systems, this leads to a dc resistivity proportional to T(3/2) in the low-temperature limit. In the presence of impurities the residual impurity resistance at T=0 is approached linearly at low temperatures.