Gutzwiller variational method is applied to an effective two-dimensional Hubbard model to examine the recently proposed gossamer superconductor by Laughlin (LANL cond-mat/0209269). The ground state at half filled electron density is a gossamer superconductor for smaller intrasite Coulomb repulsion U and a Mott insulator for larger U. The gossamer superconducting state is similar to the resonating valence bond superconducting state, except that the chemical potential is approximately pinned at the mid of the two Hubbard bands away from the half filled.
We use an effective Hamiltonian for two-dimensional Hubbard model including an antiferromagnetic spin-spin coupling term to study recently proposed Gossamer superconductivity. We apply a renormalized mean field theory to approximately take into account the strong correlation effect in partially projected Gutzwiller wave functions. At the half-filling, there is a first order phase transition to separate a Mott insulator at large Coulomb repulsion
U from a Gossamer superconductor at small
U. At the critical value
U=Uc, the charge carrier density and the superconducting (SC) order parameter change discontinuously from zero in the Mott insulating phase to finite values in the Gossamer SC phase. The first order transition is due to the interplay of the kinetic and spin exchange energies. As the electron density changes away from half-filling, the Gossamer SC state changes smoothly, while the Mott insulator is evolved into a resonating valence bond (RVB) SC state. The Gossamer and RVB SC states have the same pairing symmetry. The SC order parameter changes smoothly from a RVB SC state at
U>Uc to a Gossamer SC state at
U<Uc at a fixed nonhalf-filled electron density. We argue that the RVB SC state is smoothly connected to the Gossamer SC state, hence to the BCS state.
Recently a new phenomenological Hamiltonian was proposed to describe the superconducting cuprates in which correlations and on-site Coulomb repulsion are introduced by partial Gutzwiller projection. This Gossamer Hamiltonian has an exact ground state and differs from the t-J and Hubbard Hamiltonians in possessing a powerful attractive interaction among electrons responsible for Cooper pairing in the d-wave channel. It is a faithful description for a superconductor with strong on-site electronic repulsion. The superconducting tunneling gap remains intact and despite on-site repulsion. Near half-filling the Gossamer superconductor with strong repulsion has suppressed photoemission intensities and superfluid density, is unstable toward an antiferromagnetic insulator and possesses an incipient Mott-Hubbard gap. The Gossamer technique can be applied to metallic ground states thus possibly serving as an apt description of strongly correlated metals. Such a Gossamer metallic phase, just as the Gossamer superconducting one, becomes arbitrarily hard to differentiate from an insulator as one turns the Coulomb correlations up near half-filling. Both the metallic and superconducting states undergo a quantum phase transition to an antiferromagnetic insulator as one increases the on-site Coulomb repulsion. In the Gossamer model we reach the critical point at half-filling by fully projecting out the double occupancy. Such a critical point might be the Anderson Resonating Valence bond state.
The
d-wave superconductivity (dSC) and antiferromagnetism are analytically studied in a renormalized mean-field theory for a two-dimensional $t\text{\penalty1000-\hskip0pt}J$ model plus an on-site repulsive Hubbard interaction
U. The purpose of introducing the
U term is to partially impose the no-double-occupancy constraint by employing the Gutzwiller approximation. The phase diagrams as functions of doping $\ensuremath{\delta}$ and
U are studied. Using the standard value of
t∕J=3.0 and in the large-
U limit, we show that the antiferromagnetic (AF) order emerges and coexists with the dSC in the underdoped region below the doping $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\sim}0.1$. The dSC order parameter increases from zero as the doping increases and reaches a maximum near the optimal doping $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\sim}0.15$. In the small-
U limit, only the dSC order survives while the AF order disappears. As
U increases up to a critical value, the AF order shows up and coexists with the dSC in the underdoped regime. At half-filling, the system is in the dSC state for small
U and becomes an AF insulator for large
U. Within the present mean-field approach, we show that the ground-state energy of the coexistent state is always lower than that of the pure dSC state.
We prove that the t-J-U model can be deduced from the Hubbard model at a large but finite U by a canonical transformation. We argue that the system may have a metal-insulator transition at a critical on-site Coulomb interaction whose value, however, is smaller than that in previous calculations in which the kinetic energy has a double counting. In a mean field theory and a special choice of the parameters, we show that the metallic state may be equivalent to the gossamer superconducting state proposed by Laughlin recently.