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FFLO Superconductivity Mediated by Excitonic Fluctuation in Semimetallic Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$

Superconductivity 2020-10-27 v6

Abstract

We investigate the excitonic fluctuation and its mediated superconductivity in the quasi one-dimensional three-chain Hubbard model for Ta2_2NiSe5_5 known as a candidate material for the excitonic insulator. In the semiconducting case and the semimetallic case with a small band-overlapping where one conduction (cc) band and one valence (ff) band cross the Fermi level, the excitonic fluctuation with q=0\bm{q}=\bm{0} is enhanced due to the cc-ff Coulomb interaction and diverges towards the uniform excitonic order corresponding to the excitonic insulator. On the other hands, in the semimetallic case with a large band-overlapping where two cc bands and one ff band cross the Fermi level, the non-uniform excitonic fluctuation with q0\bm{q}\neq \bm{0} corresponding to the nesting vector between the cc and ff Fermi-surfaces (FSs) becomes dominant and results in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) excitonic order characterized by the condensation of excitons with finite center-of-mass momentum q\bm{q}. Near the instability, the largely enhanced excitonic fluctuations mediate the cc-ff interband Cooper pairs with finite center-of-mass momentum resulting in the FFLO superconductivity, which is expected to be realized in the semimetallic Ta2_2NiSe5_5 under high pressure.

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@article{arxiv.1806.06338,
  title  = {FFLO Superconductivity Mediated by Excitonic Fluctuation in Semimetallic Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$},
  author = {Takemi Yamada and Kaoru Domon and Yoshiaki Ōno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.06338},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, 9 figures