Dielectric response of electrons with strong local correlations and long-ranged Coulomb interactions

Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments, we append long ranged Coulomb interactions to dominant strong local correlations and study the resulting t-J-VC model for the 2-dimensional cuprate materials. This model includes the effect of short ranged Hubbard–Gutzwiller–Kanamori type correlations and long ranged Coulomb interactions on tight binding electrons. We calculate the {q→,ω} dependent charge density fluctuations in this model using the extremely correlated Fermi liquid theory characterized by quasiparticles with very small weight Z. We develop a novel set of formulae to represent the dynamical charge susceptibility and the dielectric function, using a version of the charge-current continuity equation for a band system, valid for arbitrary q→. Combining these ingredients, we present results for the irreducible dynamical charge susceptibility χ˜ρρ(q→,ω), (longitudinal) dielectric function ɛ(q→,ω), current susceptibility χ˜JJ(q→,ω), conductivity σ(q→,ω), and the plasma frequency for any q→. We also present calculations for the first moment of the structure function and discuss a characteristic energy scale Ωp(q→) which locates a peak in Imχ˜ρρ(q→,ω).