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Acta Physica Polonica A

Phase Fluctuations and BCS-LP Crossover in 2D Short Coherence Length Superconductors

B. Tobijaszewska, R. Micnas

Published Mar 1, 2000• 12 citations
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Abstract

We study the effects of phase fluctuations in 2D short-coherence length superconductors on the basis of the extended Hubbard model with intersite attraction.In the Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario the critical temperatures for anisotropic pairings were determined and compared with the ones from BCS Hartree-Fock approximation.The Uemura-type plots, i.e. the critical temperature vs. zero temperature phase stiffness, were obtained for extended s-wave and d x 2y 2-wave pairings.We also discuss the crossover from BCS to local pair superconductivity for d-wave pairing.

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10.12693/aphyspola.97.393

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We study the effects of phase fluctuations in 2D short-coherence length superconductors on the basis of the extended Hubbard model with intersite attraction.In the Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario the critical temperatures for anisotropic pairings were determined and compared with the ones from BCS Hartree-Fock approximation.The Uemura-type plots, i.e. the critical temperature vs. zero temperature phase stiffness, were obtained for extended s-wave and d x 2y 2-wave pairings.We also discuss the crossover from BCS to local pair superconductivity for d-wave pairing.
We study the superfluid properties of short-coherence-length superconductors described by the extended Hubbard model with on-site repulsive and intersite attractive interaction. We have analysed the superfluid stiffness and thermodynamic properties of the model versus electron concentration and pairing interaction on a two-dimensional square lattice with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbour hopping. The effects of phase fluctuations on anisotropic superconductivity of extended s-and d x 2 − y 2 -wave type were examined within the Kosterlitz–Thouless (KT) scenario. The KT critical temperatures were determined and compared with those from the BCS–Hartree–Fock approximation. The Uemura-type plots, i.e. the critical temperature versus zero-temperature phase stiffness, were obtained for both extended s- and d-wave pairings. The states with mixed (s ∗ and d x 2 − y 2 ) symmetry, and in particular the time-reversal breaking state of s + id symmetry, were analysed and the phase diagrams taking into account these states are presented. We also briefly discuss the crossover from BCS to local pair superconductivity for the d x 2 − y 2 -wave pairing. A comparison of the theoretical results with the experimental data, in particular those of T c versus λ −2 (0), for high- T c cuprate superconductors is made.
Abstract We analyze the competing pairings and crossover from BCS to local pair (LP) superconductivity for the d ‐wave pairing symmetry in the ground state. The phase diagrams for the extended Hubbard model with intersite electron pairing and hard‐core repulsion (U = ∞) are obtained for the 2D square lattice. The influence of the nnn hopping (t 2) on the crossover is discussed. For appropriate values of the parameters (nnn repulsion) and |t 2/t | < 0.5 the crossover is simultaneous with the vanishing of nodal points in the quasiparticle energy. The vanishing of nodal points is clearly reflected in the evolution of the presented superconducting characteristics. Results for d pairing are compared with those for the crossover in the s*‐wave channel and the role of chiral px + i py states is also discussed. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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We study the phase fluctuations in the normal state of generic two-dimensional superconducting systems with sss-wave pairing. The effect of phase fluctuations of the pairing fields can be dealt with perturbatively using disorder averaging, after we treat the local superconducting order parameter as a static disordered background. It is then confirmed that the phase fluctuations above the two-dimensional Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition lead to a significant broadening of the single-particle spectrum, giving birth to the pseudogap phenomenon. Quantitatively, the broadening of spectral weights near the BCS gap is characterized by the ratio of the superconducting coherence length and the spatial correlation length of the superconducting pairing order parameter. Our results are tested on the fermionic attractive-UUU Hubbard model on the square lattice, using the unbiased determinant quantum Monte Carlo method and stochastic analytic continuation.