A recent experiment has unveiled an anomalously strong electron-electron attraction in the one-dimensional copper-oxide chain ${\mathrm{Ba}}_{2\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{x}{\mathrm{CuO}}_{3+\ensuremath{\delta}}$. While the effect of the near-neighbor electron attraction
V in the one-dimensional extended Hubbard chain has been examined recently, its effect in the Hubbard model beyond the one-dimensional chain remains unclear. Here, we report a density matrix renormalization group study of the extended Hubbard model on long four-leg cylinders on the square lattice. We find that the near-neighbor electron attraction
V can notably enhance the long-distance superconducting correlations while simultaneously suppressing the charge-density-wave (CDW) correlations. Specifically, for a modestly strong electron attraction, the superconducting correlations become dominant over the CDW correlations with a Luttinger exponent ${K}_{sc}\ensuremath{\sim}1$ and strong divergent superconducting susceptibility. Our results provide a promising way to realize long-range superconductivity in the doped Hubbard model. The relevance of our numerical results to cuprate materials is also discussed.
We contrast the transport properties (dc resistivity, Seebeck coefficient), optical conductivity, spectral functions, dynamical magnetic susceptibility, and the nuclear magnetic resonance
1/T1 spin-lattice relaxation rate of the repulsive and attractive infinite-dimensional Hubbard models in the paramagnetic phase for a generic band filling. The calculations are performed in a wide temperature interval using the dynamical mean-field theory with the numerical renormalization group as the impurity solver. The attractive case exhibits significantly more complex temperature dependencies which can be explained by the behavior of the half-filled Hubbard model in external magnetic field with constant magnetization, to which the attractive Hubbard model maps through the partial particle-hole transformation. The resistivity is nonmonotonous for the strongly attractive case: it peaks significantly above the Mott-Ioffe-Regel value at a temperature
Tmax where the quasiparticle band disappears. For both signs of
U we find particle-hole asymmetry in the self-energy at low energies, but with the opposite kind of excitations having longer lifetime. This leads to a strong suppression of the slope of the Seebeck coefficient in the attractive case rather than an enhancement as in the repulsive case. The spin-lattice relaxation rate in the strongly attractive case has a nonmonotonic temperature dependence, thereby revealing the pairing fluctuations.