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Joshuah T Heath1, Kevin S Bedell1
1Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States of America.
Abstract:
Motivated by recent experiments in the Kitaev honeycomb lattice, Kondo insulators, and the 'Luttinger's theorem-violating' Fermi liquid phase of the underdoped cuprates, we extend the theoretical machinery of Landau-Fermi liquid theory to a system of itinerant, interacting Majorana-like particles. Building upon a previously introduced model of 'nearly self-conjugate' fermionic polarons, a Landau-Majorana kinetic equation is introduced to describe the collective modes and Fermi surface instabilities in a fluid of particles whose fermionic degrees of freedom obey the Majorana reality condition. At large screening, we show that the Landau-Majorana liquid harbors a Lifshitz transition for specific values of the driving frequency. Moreover, we find the dispersion of the zero sound collective mode in such a system, showing that there exists a specific limit where the Landau-Majorana liquid harbors a stability against Pomeranchuk deformations unseen in the conventional Landau-Fermi liquid. With these results, our work paves the way for possible extensions of the Landau quasiparticle paradigm to nontrivial metallic phases of matter.
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