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Band-structure effects on superconductivity in Hubbard models

Superconductivity 2015-11-11 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the influence of the band structure on the symmetry and superconducting transition temperature in the (solvable) weak-coupling limit of the repulsive Hubbard model. Among other results we find: 1) As a function of increasing nematicity, starting from the square lattice (zero nematicity) limit where nodal d-wave state is strongly preferred, there is a smooth evolution to the quasi-1D limit, where a striking near-degeneracy is found between a p-wave- and a d-wave-type paired states with accidental nodes on the quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surfaces---a situation which may be relevant to the Bechgaard salts. 2) In a bilayer system, we find a phase transition as a function of increasing bilayer coupling from a d-wave to an s±s_{\pm}-wave state reminiscent of the iron-based superconductors. 3) When an antinodal gap is produced by charge-density-wave order, not only is the pairing scale reduced, but the symmetry of the pairs switches from dx2y2tod_{x^2-y^2} to d_{xy}$; in the context of the cuprates, this suggests that were the pseudo-gap entirely due to a competing order, this would likely cause a corresponding symmetry change of the superconducting order (which is not seen in experiment).

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@article{arxiv.1305.2228,
  title  = {Band-structure effects on superconductivity in Hubbard models},
  author = {Weejee Cho and Ronny Thomale and Srinivas Raghu and Steven A. Kivelson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2228},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 13 figures. Updated Version

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