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Band structure effects on the superconductivity in Hubbard models

Weejee Cho, Ronny Thomale, Srinivas Raghu, and Steven A. Kivelson
Phys. Rev. B 88, 064505 – Published 12 August 2013

Abstract

We study the influence of the band structure on the symmetry and superconducting transition temperature in the (solvable) weak-coupling limit of the repulsive Hubbard model. Among other results we find that (1) as a function of increasing nematicity, starting from the square-lattice (zero nematicity) limit where a nodal d-wave state is strongly preferred, there is a smooth evolution to the quasi-1D limit, where a striking near-degeneracy is found between a p-wave- and a d-wave-type paired states with accidental nodes on the quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surfaces—a situation that may be relevant to the Bechgaard salts. (2) In a bilayer system, we find a phase transition as a function of increasing bilayer coupling from a d-wave to an s±-wave state reminiscent of the iron-based superconductors. (3) When an antinodal gap is produced by charge-density-wave order, not only is the pairing scale reduced, but the symmetry of the pairs switches from dx2y2 to dxy; in the context of the cuprates, this suggests that were the pseudogap entirely due to a competing CDW order, this would likely cause a corresponding symmetry change of the superconducting order (which is not seen in experiment).

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  • Received 9 May 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.064505

©2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Weejee Cho1, Ronny Thomale2,3, Srinivas Raghu1, and Steven A. Kivelson1

  • 1Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 2Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 3Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Würzburg, D 97074 Würzburg, Germany

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Vol. 88, Iss. 6 — 1 August 2013

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