Physical review. B, Condensed matter
BCS to Bose-Einstein crossover phase diagram at zero temperature for a dx2−y2 order parameter superconductor: Dependence on the tight-binding structure
M. B. Soares, F. Kokubun, José Jesús Rodríguez-Núñez, Otto Rendón
Abstract
We study the effect of the next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping matrix element ${t}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ on the zero-temperature $(T=0\mathrm{K})$ crossover phase diagram, namely, from the BCS limit to the Bose-Einstein regime, for a model which presents a ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ superconductor order parameter symmetry. This theoretical generalization is required by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments. Our NNN hopping is characterized by the parameter $\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\equiv}{t}^{\ensuremath{'}}/t\ensuremath{\ne}0,$ where t is the nearest neighbor hopping matrix element. For \ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\geqslant}0, there is a crossover of BCS binding energy type as described [B. C. den Hertog, Phys. Rev. B 60, 559 (1999)] by keeping the density fixed. However, for \ensuremath{\alpha}0, the system is always in the Bose-Einstein regime for $n~{n}_{c}\ensuremath{\approx}0.12.$ We conclude that the presence of the NNN hopping matrix element drastically influences the crossover diagram for a ${d}_{{x}^{2}\ensuremath{-}{y}^{2}}$ superconductor.