RVB superconductors with fermionic projected entangled pair states
Abstract
We construct a family of simple fermionic projected entangled pair states (fPEPS) on the square lattice with bond dimension which are exactly hole-doped resonating valence bond (RVB) wavefunctions with short-range singlet bonds. Under doping the insulating RVB spin liquid evolves immediately into a superconductor with mixed pairing symmetry whose pair amplitude grows as the square-root of the doping. The relative weight between -wave and -wave components can be controlled by a single variational parameter . We optimize our ansatz w.r.t. for the frustrated model (including both nearest and next-nearest neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions and , respectively) for and obtain an energy very close to the infinite-PEPS state (using full update optimization and same bond dimension). The orbital symmetry of the optimized RVB superconductor has predominant d-wave character, although we argue a residual (complex s-wave) time reversal symmetry breaking component should always be present. Connections of the results to the physics of superconducting cuprates and pnictides are outlined.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.5268,
title = {RVB superconductors with fermionic projected entangled pair states},
author = {Didier Poilblanc and Philippe Corboz and Norbert Schuch and J. Ignacio Cirac},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5268},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures and Supplemental Material (3 pages, 2 figures). Updated version including new iPEPS results using full update optimization scheme, showing excellent agreement with RVB wave function