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arXiv:cond-mat/0312573

Nearly Insulating Strongly Correlated Systems: Gossamer Superconductors and Metals

Bogdan Andrei Bernevig, George Chapline, R. B. Laughlin, Zaira Nazario, David Santiago

Published Dec 22, 2003• 0 citations
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Abstract

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.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0312573

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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 UUU from a Gossamer superconductor at small UUU. At the critical value U=UcU={U}_{c}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>UcU>{U}_{c}U>Uc​ to a Gossamer SC state at U<UcU<{U}_{c}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.
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.
Slave boson mean-field studies of the ground state of the Hubbard model with correlated hopping were performed. The approach qualitatively recovers the exact results for the case when the hopping integral ttt equals the correlated hopping integral X.X.X. The phase diagram for the strongly correlated state with only singly occupied sites, the weakly correlated state, where single and double occupation is allowed, and for the superconducting state, was determined for any value of XXX and any electron concentration n.n.n. At the half-filled band (n=1)(n=1)(n=1) a direct transition from the superconductor to the Mott insulator was found. In the region of strong correlations the superconducting solution is stable for nnn close to 1, in contrast to the case of weak correlations, in which superconductivity occurs at $n\ensuremath{\approx}0$ and $n\ensuremath{\approx}2.$ We have also found that strong correlations change the characteristics of the superconducting phase, e.g., the gap in the excitation spectrum exhibits a nonexponential dependence on the on-site Coulomb integral UUU close to the phase-transition point.
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