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arXiv:1308.4845 · Physical Review B

Superconductivity in the two-dimensional t - t′ -Hubbard model

Andreas Eberlein, Walter Metzner

Published Jan 17, 2014• 72 citations
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Abstract

Using a recently developed renormalization group method for fermionic superfluids, we determine conditions for $d$-wave superconductivity in the ground state of the two-dimensional Hubbard model at moderate interaction strength, and we compute the pairing gap in the superconducting regime. A pairing instability signaled by a divergent flow in the Cooper channel leads to a superconducting state in all studied cases. The next-to-nearest-neighbor hopping ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ plays a crucial role in the competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity. A sizable ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ is necessary to obtain a sizable pairing gap.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.89.035126

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We use a novel temperature-flow renormalization group technique to analyze magnetic and superconducting instabilities in the two-dimensional ${t\ensuremath{-}t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ Hubbard model for particle densities close to the Van Hove filling as a function of the next-nearest-neighbor hopping ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$. In the one-loop flow at the Van Hove filling, the characteristic temperature for the flow to strong coupling is suppressed drastically around ${t}_{c}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{\approx}\ensuremath{-}0.33t$, suggesting a quantum critical point between ddd-wave pairing at moderate ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}>{t}_{c}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ and ferromagnetism for ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}<{t}_{c}^{\ensuremath{'}}$. Upon increasing the particle density in the latter regime, the leading instability occurs in the triplet pairing channel.
The repulsive two-dimensional Hubbard model is analysed within a functional renormalisation group (RG) approach. The flow equation for the effective interactions is evaluated on 1-loop level. The effective interactions diverge at a finite energy scale which is exponentially small for small bare interactions. To analyse the nature of the instabilities signalled by the diverging interactions, we compute the flow of the superconducting susceptibilities for various pairing symmetries and also charge and spin density susceptibilities. Depending on the choice of the model parameters (hopping amplitudes, interaction strength and band-filling) we find spin density wave instabilities or d-wave superconductivity as leading instability close to half-filling. This calculation establishes the existence of d-wave superconductivity in the Hubbard model beyond doubt.