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Correlated BCS wavefunction approach to unconventional superconductors

Superconductivity 2023-09-07 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We propose a modified BCS wavefunction as the ground state of a correlated superconductor with the correlation specified between kk and k-k electrons in the reciprocal space. Owing to this correlation, low-energy excitations are not conventional BCS Bogoliubov quasiparticles. They display at least four poles in the Green's function and their particle-hole weights in the tunneling and photon-emission spectrum become asymmetric. The superfluid density or superfluid stiffness also deviates from the BCS predictions with finite paramagnetic terms inside the total diamagnetic response. Moreover, a dd-wave correlated pairing state becomes robust against weak disorders. Hence, this state can explain many mysterious features observed in unconventional superconductors like cuprates.

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@article{arxiv.2309.02695,
  title  = {Correlated BCS wavefunction approach to unconventional superconductors},
  author = {Pengfei Li and Kun Jiang and Jiangping Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02695},
  year   = {2023}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures in the main text and 3 pages, 1 figure in the supplemental material

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