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Superconducting critical temperature in the extended diffusive SYK model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-12-17 v4

Abstract

Models for strongly interacting fermions in disordered clusters forming an array, with electron hopping between sites, reproduce the linear dependence on temperature of the resistivity, typical of the strange metal phase of High Temperature Superconducting materials (Extended Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models). Our hydrodynamical approach to the marginal Fermi liquid emerging out of the interaction, identifies the low energy collective excitations of the system in its coherent phase. These neutral excitations diffuse in the lattice, but the diffusion is heavily hindered by coupling to the pseudo Goldstone modes of the conformal broken symmetry SYK phase, which are local in space. A critical temperature for superconductivity arises in the electron liquid,in case these excitations are assumed to mediate an attractive Cooper-pairing, in the electron liquid, which is not BCS-like.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05627,
  title  = {Superconducting critical temperature in the extended diffusive SYK model},
  author = {F. Salvati and A. Tagliacozzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05627},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

37 pages, 12 figures, corrects few ambiguities, some typos and adds 3 references

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