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Possible superconductivity with Bogoliubov Fermi surface in lightly doped Kagome U(1) spin liquid

Superconductivity 2021-11-16 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Whether the doped t-J model on the Kagome lattice supports exotic superconductivity has not been decisively answered. In this paper, we propose a new class of variational states for this model and perform large-scale variational Monte Carlo simulation on it. The proposed variational states are parameterized by the SU(2)-gauge-rotation angles, as the SU(2)-gauge structure hidden in the Gutzwiller-projected mean-field ansatz for the undoped model is broken upon doping. These variational doped states smoothly connect to the previously studied U(1) π\pi-flux or 00-flux states, and energy minimization among them yields a chiral noncentrosymmetric nematic superconducting state with 2×22 \times 2-enlarged unit cell. Moreover, this pair density wave state possesses a finite Fermi surface for the Bogoliubov quasi particles. We further study experimentally relevant properties of this intriguing pairing state.

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@article{arxiv.2003.02850,
  title  = {Possible superconductivity with Bogoliubov Fermi surface in lightly doped Kagome U(1) spin liquid},
  author = {Yi-Fan Jiang and Hong Yao and Fan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.02850},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

4.5 pages, 3 figures + supplement material. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett