Correlated BCS wavefunction approach to unconventional superconductors
Abstract
We propose a modified BCS wavefunction as the ground state of a correlated superconductor with the correlation specified between and electrons in the reciprocal space. Owing to this correlation, low-energy excitations are not conventional BCS Bogoliubov quasiparticles. They display at least four poles in the Green's function and their particle-hole weights in the tunneling and photon-emission spectrum become asymmetric. The superfluid density or superfluid stiffness also deviates from the BCS predictions with finite paramagnetic terms inside the total diamagnetic response. Moreover, a -wave correlated pairing state becomes robust against weak disorders. Hence, this state can explain many mysterious features observed in unconventional superconductors like cuprates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.02695,
title = {Correlated BCS wavefunction approach to unconventional superconductors},
author = {Pengfei Li and Kun Jiang and Jiangping Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02695},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures in the main text and 3 pages, 1 figure in the supplemental material