We establish that a doping-driven first-order metal-to-metal transition, from a pseudogap metal to Fermi Liquid, can occur in correlated quantum materials. Our result is based on the exact Dynamical Mean Field Theory solution of the Dimer Hubbard Mod
el. This transition elucidates the origin of many exotic features in doped Mott materials, like the pseudogap in cuprates, incoherent bad metals, enhanced compressibility and orbital selective Mott transition. This phenomenon is suggestive to be at the roots of the many exotic phases appearing in the phase diagram of correlated materials.
The quantum critical behavior of the Ising glass in a magnetic field is investigated. We focus on the spin glass to paramagnet transition of the transverse degrees of freedom in the presence of finite longitudinal field. We use two complementary tech
niques, the Landau theory close to the T=0 transition and the exact diagonalization method for finite systems. This allows us to estimate the size of the critical region and characterize various crossover regimes. An unexpectedly small energy scale on the disordered side of the critical line is found, and its possible relevance to experiments on metallic glasses is briefly discussed.
We study the photoemission and optical conductivity response of the strongly correlated metallic system $Ca_xSr_{1-x}VO_3$. We find that the basic features of the transfer of spectral weight in photoemission experiments and the unusual lineshape of t
he optical response can be understood by modeling the system with a one band Hubbard model close to the Mott-Hubbard transition. We present a detailed comparison between the low frequency experimental data and the corresponding theoretical predictions obtained within the LISA method that is exact in the limit of large lattice connectivity.
