We have calculated the effect of a single unpaired electron on superconductivity in the strong-coupling negative-U Hubbard model employing a diagram technique with generalized Matsubara frequencies. Using a generalization of the Hamiltonian to n orbitals per site and applying a geometry-controlled approximation in the limit of high coordination numbers z, we perform a loop expansion of the model. This allows us to incorporate fluctuation corrections to the mean-field solution, which emerges as result in lowest order of the loop expansion. We show that in the limit \ensuremath{\Vert}U\ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty} the mean-field solution exhibits a phase transition to a state that is characterized by a ``staggered'' local superconducting order parameter with its sign alternating from site to site. This superconducting state (referred to as the ``\ensuremath{\eta}-pairing'' state by a number of authors) for the attractive case is related to the Nagaoka ground state of the repulsive Hubbard model by a partial particle-hole transformation. We have found that the model in the slightly spin-polarized case (i.e., when a single unpaired electron is present) for highly coordinated lattices and in lowest loop order is equivalent to a pair-hopping model with temperature-dependent repulsive coupling. In this paper we report the mean-field results for the transition temperature, the order parameter, the chemical potential, the upper critical magnetic field
Hc2 and excitation spectra both above and below
Tc and demonstrate that the system exhibits a complete Meissner effect.
The phase diagrams and superconducting properties of the extended Hubbard model with pair hopping interaction, i.e., the Penson-Kolb-Hubbard model are studied. The analysis of the model is performed for d-dimensional hypercubic lattices, including
d=1 and $d=\ensuremath{\infty},$ by means of the (broken symmetry) Hartree-Fock approximations and, for $d=\ensuremath{\infty},$ by the slave-boson mean-field method. For
d=1, at half filling the phase diagram is shown to consist of nine different phases including two superconducting states with center-of-mass momentum
q=0 and
q=Q $(\ensuremath{\eta}$ pairing), site and bond-located antiferromagnetic and charge-density wave states as well as three mixed phases with coexisting site and bond orderings. The stability range of the bond-type orderings shrinks with increasing lattice dimensionality d and for $d=\ensuremath{\infty}$ the corresponding diagram consists of four phases only, involving exclusively site-located orderings. Comparing the pair hopping model with the attractive Hubbard model we found in both cases gradual evolution from the BCS-like limit to the tightly bound pairs regime and a monotonic increase of the gap in the excitation spectrum with increasing coupling. However, the dynamics of electron pairs in both models is qualitatively different, which results in different dependences of condensation energies and critical temperatures on interaction parameters as well as in different electrodynamic properties, especially in a strong coupling regime.
The auxiliary boson method and 1/N expansion are applied to the solution of the Hubbard model in the U =
∞ limit, in functional integral form. The zero order term in the expansion gives the mean-field result of non-interacting enhanced mass quasiparticles, and the next order gives Gaussian fluctuations around the mean-field value, representing effective interactions between the quasiparticles. From the density-density correlation function, the collective mode indicates a very different behavior away from and close to half filling. The superconducting instability is examined to 1/$N\sp2$ order from the dominant double collective mode exchange. For a parabolic band, there is a p-wave triplet instability. But for a 2D square lattice, there is no superconducting pairing to this order. The effects of disorder on this system are also investigated. For moderate filling, the specific heat and scattering rate have the same results as predicted in the weakly interacting theories. Close to half-filling, the specific heat and scattering rate show a much sharper temperature and energy dependence.
Our previous mean-field study concerning superconducting pairings in the extended Hubbard model with on-site repulsive and intersite attractive interaction and arbitrary electron density is extended to include the effects of nearest-neighbor exchange (
J) and correlated hopping (
K) interaction. Detailed numerical analysis of
s-,
p-, and
d-wave pairing solutions is performed for the two-dimensional square lattice with nearest- (
t) and next-nearest- (
t2) neighbor hopping, and the resulting mutual stability phase diagrams are given as a function of band filling and the interaction parameters. Antiferromagnetic exchange can enhance both the
d-wave and the extended
s-wave pairing. If it prevails over the repulsive intersite density-density interaction, such a term can be a leading mechanism for superconductivity. However, its effects strongly depend on the band filling and the
tt2 ratio, giving in particular for
t2=0 s-wave (
d-wave) pairing as most favorable in the low (high) density limit, but increasing
t2 can even reverse this tendency. The correlated hopping term which breaks the electron-hole symmetry affects
s-wave pairing mostly. A condensation transition (phase separation), possible in the presence of the attractive density-density interaction, is also analyzed within the random-phase approximation, and stability conditions of such an electron droplet phase with respect to other types of ordering are determined as a function of the band filling for the two-dimensional square lattice.
The Penson-Kolb-Hubbard model, i.e. the Hubbard model with the pair-hopping interaction J is studied.We focus on the properties of the superconducting state with the Cooper-pair center-of-mass momentum q = Q (η-phase).The transition into the η-phase, which is favorized by the repulsive J (J < 0) is found to occur only above some critical value |J c |, dependent on band filling, on-site interaction U and band structure, and the system never exhibits standard BCS-like features.This is in obvious contrast with the properties of the isotropic s-wave state, stabilized by the attractive J and attractive U , which exhibit at T = 0 a smooth crossover from the BCS-like limit to that of tightly bound pairs with increasing pairing strength.