Spin and superconducting instabilities near a Van Hove singularity

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00637-5zbMATH Open0998.82039arXivcond-mat/0303580MaRDI QIDQ700847FDOQ700847

Authors: D. Kharzeev 

Publication date: 9 October 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply a wilsonian renormalization group approach to the system of electrons in a two-dimensional square lattice interacting near the saddle-points of the band, when the correlations at momentum $$ prevail in the system. The detailed consideration of the spin degrees of freedom allows to discern the way in which the SU(2) spin invariance is preserved in the renormalization process. Regarding the spin correlations, we find two different universality classes which correspond, in the context of the extended Hubbard model, to having the bare on-site interaction $U$ repulsive or attractive. The first class is characterized by a spin instability which develops through the condensation of particle-hole pairs with momentum $$, with the disappearance of the Fermi line in the neighborhood of the saddle-points. Within that class, the attractive or repulsive character of the nearest-neighbor interaction $V$ dictates whether there is or not a d-wave superconducting instability in the system. For the Hubbard model with just on-site interaction, we show that some of the irrelevant operators are able to trigger the superconducting instability. The naturalness of the competing instabilities is guaranteed by the existence of a range of doping levels in which the chemical potential of the open system is renormalized to the level of the saddle-points. We incorporate this effect to obtain the phase diagram as a function of the bare chemical potential, which displays a point of optimal doping separating the regions of superconductivity and spin instability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303580

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zbMATH Keywords

electron systemSU(2) spin invariancetwo-dimensional square lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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