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Journal of Applied Physics

Superconductivity in a strongly correlated electron system: A theoretical study

E.S. Caixeiro, A. Troper

Published Feb 17, 2009• 3 citations
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Abstract

In this work we study the superconductivity within an attractive two-dimensional one-band Hubbard model. We consider a d-wave superconducting gap and a Hubbard-I approximation to describe the strongly correlated superconducting regime. We use the Green’s function method to obtain the order parameter Δ and the superconducting critical temperature Tc. The results show that for fixed values of the superconducting attractive potential U(U<0), the gap increases for low temperatures but diminishes abruptly as the temperature increases. The effect of pressure is discussed, varying the next-nearest-neighbor hopping t2, yielding a change in Tc, and also in Δ0, and a tendency to suppress the superconductivity.

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10.1063/1.3063667

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