Title
Enhancement of the critical temperature of d-wave superconductors by odd-parity electronic mixing
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Instituto de Ingeniería Militar de Brasil
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
We study the dependence of the critical temperature of a two-band d-wave superconductor on the intensity of an odd parity hybridization between these bands. We consider a two-dimensional (2D) system in the presence of an attractive inter-band interaction. The odd-parity k-dependent hybridization is appropriate to describe mixing of electronic states arising from orbitals with angular momenta that differ by an odd number, such as, sp, pd or df bands. We show that increasing the strength of the odd-parity hybridization enhances superconductivity and also changes the nature of superconductivity from a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) type of pairing to a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) characteristic of a strong coupling regime, even for weak-couplings. This crossover can also be driven by increasing the binding energy, that appears in the two-body interaction of these 2D systems. Finally, we investigate the effect of the variation in the carrier density on the superconducting phase diagram.
Start page
19
End page
23
Volume
205
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84921416831
Source
Solid State Communications
ISSN of the container
0038-1098
Sponsor(s)
We wish to thank the Brazilian agencies, FAPERJ and CNPq for financial support. D.R. would like to also thank the APQ1 Grant no. E-26/111.360/2014 from FAPERJ.
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