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Complete renormalization group calculation up to two-loop order of an effective two-band model for iron-based superconductors

Superconductivity 2015-05-28 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We perform a renormalization group (RG) study up to two-loop order of an effective low-energy two-band model to describe some of the recently discovered iron-based superconductors. Our starting point is the itinerant electronic model proposed by Chubukov \emph{et al.} [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{78}, 134512 (2008)], which displays two small, almost nested Fermi pockets with one hole pocket centered at (0,0)(0,0) and one electron pocket centered at Q=(π,π)\mathbf{Q} = (\pi,\pi) in the folded Brillouin zone. We then proceed to implement a complete two-loop RG calculation for this model of four-point vertex corrections, quasiparticle weight and several order-parameter susceptibilities in order to evaluate the robustness of one-loop RG results available in the literature with respect to including self-energy effects and higher-order quantum fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4897,
  title  = {Complete renormalization group calculation up to two-loop order of an effective two-band model for iron-based superconductors},
  author = {Vanuildo S. de Carvalho and Hermann Freire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4897},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters