We investigate the influence of nonlocal interactions on superconducting correlations within the extended Hubbard model. In addition to the on-site Coulomb interaction and nearest-neighbor hopping, we include next-nearest-neighbor hopping together with several physically relevant nonlocal terms, namely nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction, correlated hopping, exchange interaction, and pair hopping. Using Lanczos exact diagonalization on a
4×4 cluster, supported by projector quantum Monte Carlo simulations for selected parameter regimes, we analyze pairing correlations in both the s- and d-wave channels. We demonstrate that nonlocal interactions exert a highly nontrivial and symmetry-dependent influence on superconducting correlations. While the on-site repulsion in cooperation with next-nearest-neighbor hopping enhances d-wave pairing tendencies, correlated hopping and nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction strongly promote s-wave correlations, whereas exchange and pair-hopping interactions can efficiently suppress superconductivity beyond relatively small critical strengths. When all nonlocal interactions are considered simultaneously, the resulting phase diagrams reveal a complex interplay and competition between different pairing symmetries. Our results highlight the crucial role of extended interactions in shaping the pairing landscape of strongly correlated systems and demonstrate that a comprehensive treatment beyond the minimal Hubbard model is essential for a realistic description of unconventional superconductivity.
Abstract We investigate the influence of nonlocal interactions on superconducting correlations within the extended Hubbard model. In addition to the on-site Coulomb interaction and nearest-neighbor hopping, we include next-nearest-neighbor hopping together with several physically relevant nonlocal terms, namely nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction, correlated hopping, exchange interaction, and pair hopping. Using Lanczos exact diagonalization on a
4×4 4 × 4 cluster, supported by projector quantum Monte Carlo simulations for selected parameter regimes, we analyze pairing correlations in both the s - and d -wave channels. We demonstrate that nonlocal interactions exert a highly nontrivial and symmetry-dependent influence on superconducting correlations. While the on-site repulsion in cooperation with next-nearest-neighbor hopping enhances d -wave pairing tendencies, correlated hopping and nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction strongly promote s -wave correlations, whereas exchange and pair-hopping interactions can efficiently suppress superconductivity beyond relatively small critical strengths. When all nonlocal interactions are considered simultaneously, the resulting phase diagrams reveal a complex interplay and competition between different pairing symmetries. Our results highlight the crucial role of extended interactions in shaping the pairing landscape of strongly correlated systems and demonstrate that a comprehensive treatment beyond the minimal Hubbard model is essential for a realistic description of unconventional superconductivity.
We consider the influence of a nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction in an extended Hubbard model and introduce an interaction term which simulates atomic polarizabilities. The inclusion of atomic polarizabilities in the model has the effect of screening the on-site Coulomb interaction for charged excitations, unlike a neighbor Coulomb interaction which reduces energies of neutral local excitations, leaving the conductivity gap unchanged. This is supported by an exact diagonalization study on small, mainly one-dimensional, extended Mott-Hubbard systems. For large V, the system undergoes a phase transition from a spin-density wave (SDW) to a charge-density wave (CDW). It is shown that the SDW/CDW phase transition cannot be described correctly when using effective parameters, but that screening effects have to be included explicitly. Also other phases, one of which is ferroelectric, appear when atomic polarizabilities are included in the model Hamiltonian. We study
C60 in terms of the degenerate extended Hubbard model with screening effects.