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arXiv:0711.3767 · International Conference on Path Integrals

LOW-ENERGY EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF THE PROJECTED BCS HAMILTONIAN CLOSE TO HALF FILLING

E. A. Kochetov

Published Nov 1, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate analytically a connection between the t-J model and the strongly correlated Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) Hamiltonian, with the effect of strong electron correlations accounted by the Gutzwiller projection. We show that in the immediate vicinity of half filling the projected 2D BCS Hamiltonian with strong pairing develops an antiferromagnetically (AF) ordered ground state. This result explicitly demonstrates that antiferromagnetism in this model appears as a natural consequence of the strong Coulomb repulsion in a low doped regime. At moderate doping the ground state of the Gutzwiller-projected BCS Hamiltonian becomes qualitatively similar to Anderson's resonating valence bond state which is known to fit nicely the properties of the t-J model in this regime. These two properties taken together indicate that the projected BCS Hamiltonian captures the essential low-energy physics of the t-J model in the whole underdoped region.

DOI
10.1142/9789812837271_0066

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We investigate a connection between the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model and the strongly correlated Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) Hamiltonian, with the effect of strong electron correlations accounted by the Gutzwiller projection. We show that in the immediate vicinity of half filling the projected two-dimensional BCS Hamiltonian with strong pairing develops an antiferromagnetically ordered ground state. This result explicitly demonstrates that antiferromagnetism in this model appears as a natural consequence of the strong Coulomb repulsion in a low doped regime. At moderate doping the ground state of the Gutzwiller-projected BCS Hamiltonian is, in finite-system studies, known to become qualitatively similar to Anderson's resonating valence bond state which, in turn, fits nicely with the properties of the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model in that regime. Combined together, these two properties indicate that the projected BCS Hamiltonian at least qualitatively captures the essential low-energy physics of the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model in the underdoped region.
A connection between quantum antiferromagnetism and high Tc{T}_{c}Tc​ superconductivity is theoretically investigated by analyzing the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model and its relationships to the Gutzwiller-projected BCS Hamiltonian. After numerical corroboration via exact diagonalization, it is analytically shown that the ground state of the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model at half filling [i.e., the two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model] is entirely equivalent to the ground state of the Gutzwiller-projected BCS Hamiltonian with strong pairing. Combined with the high wave function overlap between the ground states of the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model and the projected BCS Hamiltonian at moderate doping, this equivalence provides strong support for the existence of superconductivity in the $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model. The relationship between the ground state of the projected BCS Hamiltonian and Anderson's resonating valence bond state (i.e., the projected BCS ground state) is discussed.
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Recently a new phenomenological Hamiltonian was proposed to describe the superconducting cuprates in which correlations and on-site Coulomb repulsion are introduced by partial Gutzwiller projection. This Gossamer Hamiltonian has an exact ground state and differs from the t-J and Hubbard Hamiltonians in possessing a powerful attractive interaction among electrons responsible for Cooper pairing in the d-wave channel. It is a faithful description for a superconductor with strong on-site electronic repulsion. The superconducting tunneling gap remains intact and despite on-site repulsion. Near half-filling the Gossamer superconductor with strong repulsion has suppressed photoemission intensities and superfluid density, is unstable toward an antiferromagnetic insulator and possesses an incipient Mott-Hubbard gap. The Gossamer technique can be applied to metallic ground states thus possibly serving as an apt description of strongly correlated metals. Such a Gossamer metallic phase, just as the Gossamer superconducting one, becomes arbitrarily hard to differentiate from an insulator as one turns the Coulomb correlations up near half-filling. Both the metallic and superconducting states undergo a quantum phase transition to an antiferromagnetic insulator as one increases the on-site Coulomb repulsion. In the Gossamer model we reach the critical point at half-filling by fully projecting out the double occupancy. Such a critical point might be the Anderson Resonating Valence bond state.
By explicitly computing wave function overlap via exact diagonalization in finite systems, we provide evidence indicating that, in the limit of strong coupling, i.e., Delta/t--> infinity the ground state of the Gutzwiller-projected BCS Hamiltonian (accompanied by proper particle-number projection) is identical to the exact ground state of the 2D antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the square lattice. This identity is adiabatically connected to a very high overlap between the ground states of the projected BCS Hamiltonian and the t-J model at moderate doping.