Abstract D -wave superconductivity in high- T c cuprates is believed to be strongly intertwined with stripe order. In this work, using the constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo method, we study the superconducting behavior of a dimer-embedded extended Hubbard model with on-site repulsion U and nearest-neighbor attractive interaction V . Our results show that when the hopping between the dimer and its surroundings is small and U is less than induces a significant enhancement of d -wave superconductivity, mainly contributed by partially filled stripes consisting of one-dimensionally arranged dimers. This work provides a new platform for a deeper understanding of the interplay between d -wave superconductivity and stripe order in high- T c cuprates.
Using numerical diagonalization of a $4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4$ cluster, we calculate on-site s, extended-
s, and ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ pairing correlation functions (PCF's) in an effective generalized Hubbard model for the cuprates, with nearest-neighbor correlated hopping and next-nearest-neighbor hopping ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}.$ The vertex contributions to the PCF's are significantly enhanced, relative to the ${t\ensuremath{-}t}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{-}U$ model. The behavior of the PCF's and their vertex contributions, and signatures of anomalous flux quantization, indicate superconductivity in the d-wave channel for moderate doping and in the s-wave channel for high doping and small U.
The two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model is widely believed to contain the key ingredients of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials. Here, we report a constrained path quantum Monte Carlo (CPQMC) study of the square-lattice extended Hubbard model with on-site Coulomb repulsion U and nearest-neighbor (NN) electron attraction V. Upon doping
δ= 0.125, we find that the NN electron attraction V can notably drive an exotic spin-triplet (p-wave) superconducting (SC) phase, and enhance the p-wave SC correlations with the increase of V. But in the intermediate coupling regime, the
dx2−y2-wave (d-wave) does not significantly increase with the increase of V, indicating that the d-wave is not affected by V in strongly correlated system. Besides the pairing phase, a spin density wave (SDW) only exists near the half-filling in the particle-hole channel, and doping disrupts the formation of SDW order. Especially, the NN electron attraction V has no significant effect on SDW, reflecting the consistent relationship between d-wave SC and spin correlation. Moreover, as doping increases, the dominant region of p-wave also expands, further suppressing the presence of d-wave, which may help explain the disappearance of d-wave SC in overdoped cuprate superconductors. We also find the d-wave exhibits a singular nonzero (near point (
2π/3,π)) condensation structure in momentum space, resulting in a different staggered behavior in the x and y direction with distance in real space. On the contrary, the p-wave condensed at zero momentum, and the p-wave correlation exhibits exponential decay in real space. Our work suggests the p-wave SC region can be induced and further broadened by the NN electron attraction V, offering a feasible mechanism to realize p-wave superconductivity in realistic cuprate materials.