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Nematicity-enhanced superconductivity in systems with a non-Fermi liquid behavior

Superconductivity 2023-04-04 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We explore the interplay between nematicity~(spontaneous breaking of the sixfold rotational symmetry), superconductivity, and non-Fermi liquid behavior in partially flat-band models on the triangular lattice. A key result is that the nematicity (Pomeranchuk instability), which is driven by many-body effect and stronger in flat-band systems, enhances superconducting transition temperature in a systematic manner on the TcT_{\rm c} dome. There, a sx2+y2dx2y2dxys_{x^2+y^2} - d_{x^2-y^2} - d_{xy}-wave symmetry, in place of the conventional dx2y2d_{x^2-y^2}-wave, governs the nematicity-enhanced pairing with a sharp rise in the TcT_{\rm c} dome on the filling axis. When the sixfold symmetry is spontaneously broken, the pairing becomes more compact in real space than in the case when the symmetry is enforced. These are accompanied by a non-Fermi character of electrons in the partially flat bands with many-body interactions.

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@article{arxiv.2110.14268,
  title  = {Nematicity-enhanced superconductivity in systems with a non-Fermi liquid behavior},
  author = {Sharareh Sayyad and Motoharu Kitatani and Abolhassan Vaezi and Hideo Aoki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14268},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6+18 pages, 5+26 figures

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