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Enhancement of d-wave Pairing in Strongly Correlated Altermagnet

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-05-20 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

Altermagnetism, featuring momentum-dependent spin splitting without net magnetization, has attracted a growing interest for spintronics. We study a Fermi Hubbard model with altermagnetic order arising from the spin-anisotropic hopping near half-filling using constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo. Spin-dependent hopping breaks SU(2) symmetry and disrupts Fermi surface nesting, giving rise to an altermagnetic state with momentum-space spin splitting but no net magnetization. We find that increasing anisotropy suppresses long-range antiferromagnetic order and significantly enhances effective dd-wave pairing correlations. Our results demonstrate a doping-free route to unconventional superconductivity mediated by short-range spin fluctuations in an altermagnetic background.

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@article{arxiv.2505.12342,
  title  = {Enhancement of d-wave Pairing in Strongly Correlated Altermagnet},
  author = {Jianyu Li and Ji Liu and Xiaosen Yang and Ho-Kin Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12342},
  year   = {2025}
}