Susceptibility Scaling And Vertex Corrections For A Nested Fermi Liquid

An unusual scaling of the spin susceptibility, as a function of frequency/temperature, was discovered for noninteracting electrons on a nested Fermi surface. This scaling has been confirmed by neutron-scattering experiments on high-temperature superconductors, and it can explain the anomalous quasiparticle damping in cuprates if electron collisions are dominant. The present work proves that self-energy and vertex corrections preserve the scaling features of the susceptibility to leading order in the Hubbard on-site Coulomb repulsion U. Analytic results for the static susceptibility show how self-energy and vertex terms modify the traditional random-phase approximation results for a spin-density-wave instability and suppress the charge susceptibility. These results are relevant to d-wave superconductors, organic metals, and chromium. [S0163-1829(99)02402-9].