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The Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity in idealized doped graphene

Superconductivity 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

Idealized graphene monolayer is considered neglecting the van der Waals potential of the substrate and the role of the nonmagnetic impurities. The effect of the long-range Coulomb repulsion in an ensemble of Dirac fermions on the formation of the superconducting pairing in a monolayer is studied in the framework of the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. The electronic structure of graphene is described in the strong coupling Wannier representation on the hexagonal lattice. We use the Shubin-Vonsowsky model which takes into account the intra- and intersite Coulomb repulsions of electrons. The Cooper instability is established by solving the Bethe-Salpeter integral equation, in which the role of the effective interaction is played by the renormalized scattering amplitude. The renormalized amplitude contains the Kohn-Luttinger polarization contributions up to and including the second-order terms in the Coulomb repulsion. We construct the superconductive phase diagram for the idealized graphene monolayer and show that the Kohn-Luttinger renormalizations and the intersite Coulomb repulsion significantly affect the interplay between the superconducting phases with ff-, d+idd+id-, and p+ipp+ip-wave symmetries of the order parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1411.3795,
  title  = {The Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity in idealized doped graphene},
  author = {M. Yu. Kagan and V. V. Val'kov and V. A. Mitskan and M. M. Korovushkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3795},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures