Orbital Nematic Instability in Two-Orbital Hubbard Model: Renormalization-Group + Constrained RPA Analysis

Abstract

Motivated by the nematic electronic fluid phase in Sr_{3}Ru_{2}O_{7}, we develop a combined scheme of the renormalization-group method and the random-phase-approximation-type method, and analyze orbital susceptibilities of the (d_{xz},d_{yz})-orbital Hubbard model with high accuracy. It is confirmed that the present model exhibits a ferro-orbital instability near the magnetic or superconducting quantum criticality, due to the Aslamazov-Larkin-type vertex corrections. This mechanism of orbital nematic order presents a natural explanation for the nematic order in Sr_{3}Ru_{2}O_{7}, and is expected to be realized in various multiorbital systems, such as Fe-based superconductors.

5 pages, 5 figures, supplemental material included, published version