Recently, evidence of superconductivity (SC) has been reported in pressurized La4Ni3O10. Here we study the possible pairing mechanism and pairing symmetry in this material. Through fitting the density-functional-theory band structure, we provide a six-orbital tight-binding model. In comparison with the band structure of La3Ni2O7, the additional non-bonding dz2 band is importance to the pairing mechanism here. When the multi-orbital Hubbard interactions are included, our random-phase-approximation based study yields an s±-wave pairing. The dominant FS nesting with nesting vector Q1≈(π,π) is between the γ-pocket contributed by the bonding dz2 band top and the α1-pocket contributed by the non-bonding dz2 band bottom, leading to the strongest pairing gap amplitude and opposite gap signs within the two regimes. The dominant real-space pairing is the interlayer pairing between the dz2 orbitals. We have also studied the doping dependence of the pairing symmetry and Tc.
@article{arxiv.2402.07902,
title = {The $s^\pm$-Wave Superconductivity in the Pressurized La$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$},
author = {Ming Zhang and Hongyi Sun and Yu-Bo Liu and Qihang Liu and Wei-Qiang Chen and Fan Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07902},
year = {2024}
}