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arXiv:1909.00627 · Physical Review Research

Pairing in the two-dimensional Hubbard model from weak to strong coupling

Astrid Tranum Rømer, Thomas Maier, Andreas Kreisel, Ilya Eremin, P. J. Hirschfeld, Brian M. Andersen

Published Jan 31, 2020• 51 citations
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Abstract

The authors present a comprehensive study of superconducting pairing in the one-band Hubbard model. By comparing different theoretical techniques, the paper shows that the hierarchy of pairing instabilities evolves smoothly from weak- to strong coupling. Additionally, the doping-dependence of the leading superconducting instability is mapped out, and found to be in agreement with previous theoretical studies of the one-band Hubbard model.

DOI
10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013108

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The authors present a comprehensive study of superconducting pairing in the one-band Hubbard model. By comparing different theoretical techniques, the paper shows that the hierarchy of pairing instabilities evolves smoothly from weak- to strong coupling. Additionally, the doping-dependence of the leading superconducting instability is mapped out, and found to be in agreement with previous theoretical studies of the one-band Hubbard model.
The finite-temperature phase diagram of the attractive Hubbard model is studied by means of the dynamical mean-field theory. We first consider the normal phase of the model by explicitly frustrating the superconducting ordering. In this case, we obtain a first-order pairing transition between a metallic phase and a paired phase formed by strongly coupled incoherent pairs. The transition line ends in a finite temperature critical point, but a crossover between two qualitatively different solutions still occurs at higher temperature. Comparing the superconducting- and the normal-phase solutions, we find that the superconducting instability always occurs before the pairing transition in the normal phase, i.e. T c > T pairing . Nevertheless, the high-temperature phase diagram at T > T c is still characterized by a crossover from a metallic phase to a preformed pair phase. We characterize this crossover by computing different observables that can be used to identify the pseudogap region, like the spin susceptibility, the specific heat and the single-particle spectral function.
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 ddd-wave pair field term, which precipitates a superconducting state in the ddd-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 ddd-wave pair/spin/charge-density matrices. The calculations show a ddd-wave superconducting ground state in doped clusters bracketed by a strong antiferromagnetic state at half filling controlled by the Coulomb repulsion UUU 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 ddd-wave superconductivity.
In nonperturbative regimes, the superfluid instability in the two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model can be described by an emergent BCS theory with small effective pairing constants. We compute the effective couplings using a controlled bold-line diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach, which stochastically sums all skeleton Feynman diagrams dressed in the one- and two-particle channels to high expansion orders, and map out the resulting superfluid ground-state phase diagram in a range of next-nearest-neighbor hopping $0\ensuremath{\le}{t}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{\le}0.3t$, interaction strength $0\ensuremath{\le}U\ensuremath{\le}3t$, and lattice filling $0\ensuremath{\le}n\ensuremath{\le}2$. The phase diagram is dramatically transformed in the hole-doped region and becomes particularly rich at larger doping and ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$. At ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}=0.3$, the weak-coupling picture with the dominant triplet pairing sharply peaked at $n\ensuremath{\approx}0.73$ due to the Van Hove singularity is replaced by a plateau of the singlet ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ paring, while for $U\ensuremath{\gtrsim}3t$ the effective couplings are consistent with the ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ high-temperature superconductivity in the hole-doped region near cuprates' optimal doping.
We study the emergence of superconductivity in the one-band Hubbard model using the spin-rotation-invariant Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave-boson (SB) approach. Motivated by its intrinsically renormalized mean-field ground state, we construct an effective pairing vertex from dynamical fluctuations about the saddle point. Solving the anisotropic, frequency-dependent gap equation on the square lattice, we map the pairing instabilities across doping, interaction, temperature and real-frequency gap structure that qualitatively match experimental cuprate observations. This framework merges strong-correlation SB-type renormalizations with RPA-type pairing transparency, providing a scalable route to modeling multi-orbital superconductivity at strong coupling.
We determine the symmetry of Cooper pairs, on the basis of the perturbation theory in terms of the Coulomb interaction U , for the two-dimensional Hubbard model on the square lattice. The phase diagram is investigated in detail. The Hubbard model for small U is mapped on to an effective Hamiltonian with the attractive interaction using the canonical transformation: H eff = e S H e − S . The gap equation of the weak coupling formulation is solved without numerical ambiguity to determine the symmetry of Cooper pairs. The superconducting gap crucially depends on the position of the van Hove singularity. We show the phase diagram in the plane of the electron filling n e and the next nearest-neighbor transfer t '. The d-wave pairing is dominant for the square lattice in a wide range of n e and t '. The d-wave pairing is also stable for the square lattice with anisotropic t '. The three-band d–p model is also investigated, for which the d-wave pairing is stable in a wide range of n e and t pp (the transfer between neighboring oxygen atoms). In the weak coupling analysis, the second-neighbor transfer parameter - t ' could not be so large so that the optimum doping rate is in the range of 0.8 < n e < 0.85.
The Hubbard model provides a simple framework in which one can study how certain aspects of the electronic structure of strongly interacting systems can be tuned to optimize the superconducting pairing correlations and how these changes affect the mechanisms giving rise to them. Here we use a weak-coupling random phase approximation to study a two-dimensional Hubbard model with a unidirectional modulation of the hopping amplitudes as the system evolves from the uniform square lattice to an array of weakly coupled two-leg ladders. We find that the pairing correlations retain their dominant ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$-wavelike structure and that they are significantly enhanced for a slightly modulated lattice. This enhancement is traced backed to an increase in the strength of the spin-fluctuation pairing interaction due to favorable Fermi surface nesting in the modulated system. We then use a random-phase approximation BCS framework to examine the evolution of the neutron resonance in the superconducting state. We find that it changes only weakly for moderate modulations, but breaks up into two distinct resonances at incommensurate wave vectors in the limit of weakly coupled ladders.