In order to identify the most favorable situation for superconductivity in the repulsive single-band Hubbard model, we have studied instabilities for d-wave pairing mediated by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and p-wave pairing mediated by ferromagnetic fluctuations with the fluctuation exchange approximation in both two dimensions and three dimensions. By systematically varying the band filling and band structure we have shown that (i) d pairing is stronger in two dimensions than in three dimensions and (ii) p pairing is much weaker than d pairing.
The electronic state of high-temperature cuprates is investigated on the basis of the two-dimensional Hubbard model. We investigate the three-band Hubbard model (which is sometimes called the d-p model) as well as the single-band Hubbard model. In particular, the three-band Hubbard model with d and p orbitals in the CuO 2 plane probably captures the physics of high-temperature superconductivity. Numerical studies of the two-dimensional d-p and Hubbard models have shown that they exhibit antiferromagnetism, stripes, d-wave pairing, coexistent antiferromagnetism with superconductivity, and arc spectra. They are basic phenomena seen in the high-temperature cuprates.
Extensive numerical studies have demonstrated that the two-dimensional single-band Hubbard model contains much of the key physics in cuprate high-temperature superconductors. However, there is no definitive proof that the Hubbard model truly possesses a superconducting ground state or, if it does, of how it depends on model parameters. To answer these longstanding questions, we study an extension of the Hubbard model including an infinite-range
d-wave pair field term, which precipitates a superconducting state in the
d-wave channel. Using exact diagonalization on 16-site square clusters, we study the evolution of the ground state as a function of the strength of the pairing term. This is achieved by monitoring the fidelity metric of the ground state, as well as determining the ratio between the two largest eigenvalues of the
d-wave pair/spin/charge-density matrices. The calculations show a
d-wave superconducting ground state in doped clusters bracketed by a strong antiferromagnetic state at half filling controlled by the Coulomb repulsion
U and a weak short-range checkerboard charge ordered state at larger hole doping controlled by the next-nearest-neighbor hopping ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$. We also demonstrate that negative ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ plays an important role in facilitating
d-wave superconductivity.