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Kekul\'e superconductivity and antiferromagnetism on the graphene lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-05-04 v2

Abstract

We investigate superconducting order in the extended Hubbard model on the two-dimensional graphene lattice using the variational cluster approximation (VCA) with an exact diagonalization solver at zero temperature. Building on the results of Ref.[1][1], which identified triplet pp- and p+ipp+ip-wave superconductivity as the most favored pairing symmetries in that model, we place uniform SC solutions in competition with the proposed nonuniform Kekul\'e (p+ipp+ip-K) superconducting pattern proposed in Ref.[2][2]. We find that the p+ipp+ip-K solution is in fact the most favored pairing in most of the phase diagram. In addition, we show that antiferromagnetism can co-exist with the p+ipp+ip-K state and that both orders are enhanced by their coexistence.

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@article{arxiv.1601.07076,
  title  = {Kekul\'e superconductivity and antiferromagnetism on the graphene lattice},
  author = {J. P. L. Faye and M. N. Diarra and D. Sénéchal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07076},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 7 figures