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Pairing strengths for a two orbital model of the Fe-pnictides

Superconductivity 2008-04-29 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Using an RPA approximation, we have calculated the strengths of the singlet and triplet pairing interactions which arise from the exchange of spin and orbital fluctuations for a 2-orbital model of the Fe-pnictide superconductors. When the system is doped with F, the electron pockets become dominant and we find that the strongest pairing occurs in the singlet d-wave pairing and the triplet p-wave pairing channels, which compete closely. The pairing structure in the singlet d-wave channel corresponds to a superposition of near neighbor intra-orbital singlets with a minus sign phase difference between the dxzd_{xz} and dyzd_{yz} pairs. The leading pairing configuration in the triplet channel also involves a nearest neighbor intra-orbital pairing. We find that the strengths of both the singlet and triplet pairing grow, with the singlet pairing growing faster, as the onsite Coulomb interaction approaches the value where the S=1 particle-hole susceptibility diverges.

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@article{arxiv.0804.4332,
  title  = {Pairing strengths for a two orbital model of the Fe-pnictides},
  author = {Xiao-Liang Qi and S. Raghu and Chao-Xing Liu and D. J. Scalapino and Shou-Cheng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4332},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures