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A Simple Solvable Model for Heavy Fermion Superconductivity from the Two-Fluid Normal State

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-12-17 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We propose an exactly solvable momentum-space Kondo-BCS model to study heavy fermion superconductivity. The Kondo interaction is local in momentum space, which can be derived from an Anderson lattice with a Hatsugai-Kohmoto interaction between ff-electrons. By increasing the Kondo interaction, the model exhibits a crossover from a weak-coupling BCS superconductor to a strong-coupling heavy fermion superconductor featured with a large gap ratio and a large specific heat jump anomaly. Accordingly, the normal state evolves from a Fermi liquid above the BCS superconductor to a non-Fermi liquid two-fluid state above the heavy fermion superconductor. The two-fluid normal state also leads to two types of Cooper pairs, one between conduction electrons, the other between composite fermions formed by conduction electrons and ff-spins, which is responsible for the strong coupling behaviors of heavy fermion superconductivity.

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@article{arxiv.2309.10540,
  title  = {A Simple Solvable Model for Heavy Fermion Superconductivity from the Two-Fluid Normal State},
  author = {Jiangfan Wang and Yu Li and Yi-feng Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10540},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures

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