Title
Influence of the symmetry of hybridization on the critical temperature of multiband superconductors
Date Issued
26 June 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Lopes N.
Continentino M.
Thomas C.
Instituto Militar de Engenharia
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
In this paper, we study a two-band model of a superconductor in a square lattice. One band is narrow in energy and includes local Coulomb correlations between its quasiparticles. Pairing occurs in this band due to nearest-neighbor attractive interactions. Extended s-wave as well as d-wave symmetries of the superconducting order parameter are considered. The correlated electrons hybridize with those in another wide conduction band through a k-dependent mixing with even or odd parity depending on the nature of the orbitals. The many-body problem is treated within a slave-boson approach that has proved adequate to deal with the strong electronic correlations that are assumed here. Since applied pressure changes mostly the ratio between hybridization and bandwidths, we can use this ratio as a control parameter to obtain the phase diagrams of the model. We find that, for a wide range of parameters, the critical temperature increases as a function of hybridization (pressure) with a region of first-order transitions. When frustration is introduced, it gives rise to a stable superconducting phase. We find that superconductivity can be suppressed for specific values of band filling due to the Coulomb repulsion. We show how pressure, composition, and strength of correlations affect the superconductivity for different symmetries of the order parameter and the hybridization.
Volume
99
Issue
22
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85068613408
Source
Physical Review B
ISSN of the container
24699950
Sponsor(s)
M.A.C. would like to thank the Brazilian agencies FAPERJ, CAPES, and CNPq for partial financial support. N.L. would like to thank the CNPq for a doctoral fellowship. 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) since the numerical calculations were performed on the Cluster HPC.
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