Title
Interplay between charge density wave and superconductivity in multiband systems with interband Coulomb interaction
Date Issued
24 May 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Instituto Militar de Engenharia
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
In this work we study the competition or coexistence between charge density wave (CDW) and superconductivity (SC) in a two-band model system in a square lattice. One of the bands has a net attractive interaction (Jd) that is responsible for SC. The model includes on-site Coulomb repulsion between quasiparticles in different bands (Udc) and the hybridization (V) between them. We are interested in describing intermetallic systems with a d-band of moderately correlated electrons, for which a mean-field approximation is adequate, coexisting with a large sp-band. For simplicity, all interactions and the hybridization V are considered site-independent. We obtain the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian numerically and minimize the free energy density with respect to the relevant parameters to obtain the phase diagrams as function of Jd, Udc, V, band-filling (ntot), and the relative depth of the bands (ϵd0). We consider two types of superconducting ground states coexisting with the CDW. One is a homogeneous ground state and the other is a pair density wave where the SC order parameter has the same spatial modulation of the CDW. Our results show that the CDW and SC orders compete, but depending on the parameters of the model these phases may coexist. The model reproduces most of the experimental features of high dimensionality (d>1) metals with competing CDW and SC states, including the existence of first- and second-order phase transitions in their phase diagrams.
Volume
103
Issue
19
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85107162214
Source
Physical Review B
ISSN of the container
24699950
Sponsor(s)
M.A.C. would like to thank the Brazilian agencies Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for partial financial support. N.L. would like to thank the FAPERJ for the post doctoral fellowship of the Programa de Pós-Doutorado Nota 10 - 2020 (E-26/202.184/2020) as well as for the Bolsa de Bancada para Projetos (E-26/202.185/2020). D.R. would like to thank the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF) where part of this work was performed. Finally, we would like to thank the COTEC (CBPF) for making available their facilities for the numerical calculations on the Cluster HPC.
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