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Coulomb interaction at Superconductor to Mott-insulator transition

Superconductivity 2009-10-31 v5

Abstract

We reexamine the effects of long-range Coulomb interaction on the onset of superconductivity. We use the model of N complex scalar fields with the Coulomb interaction studied first by Fisher and Grinstein (FG). We find that near d=3 space dimension, the system undergoes second order phase transition if N55.39N \ge 55.39, but undergoes fluctuation driven first order transition if N<55.39N < 55.39. We give the detailed derivation of the field theory Renormalization Group (RG) of this model to one loop. Our RG results disagree with those of FG at and near d=3. Possible scenario at d=2 is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9801005,
  title  = {Coulomb interaction at Superconductor to Mott-insulator transition},
  author = {Jinwu Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9801005},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, REVTEX, 10 figures embedded in the text