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Superconductivity of repulsive spinless fermions with sublattice potentials

Superconductivity 2024-04-12 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We explore unconventional superconductivity of repulsive spinless fermions on square and honeycomb lattices with staggered sublattice potentials. The two lattices can exhibit staggered dd-wave and ff-wave pairing, respectively, at low doping stemming from an effective two-valley band structure. At higher doping, in particular, the square lattice displays a much richer phase diagram including topological p+ipp+ip superconductivity which is induced by a qualitatively different mechanism compared to the dd-wave pairing. We illuminate this from several complementary perspectives: We analytically perform sublattice projection to analyze the effective continuum low-energy description and we numerically calculate the binding energies for pair and larger bound states for few-body doping near half filling. Furthermore, for finite doping, we present phase diagrams based on extensive functional renormalization group and and density matrix renormalization group calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2208.02830,
  title  = {Superconductivity of repulsive spinless fermions with sublattice potentials},
  author = {Yuchi He and Kang Yang and Jonas B. Profe and Emil J. Bergholtz and Dante M. Kennes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02830},
  year   = {2024}
}

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6+6 pages