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Mechanism for fluctuating pair density wave

Chandan Setty (University of Florida, Rice University), Laura Fanfarillo (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, University of Florida), P. J. Hirschfeld (University of Florida)

Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38956-x (Physics and Astronomy)
License: CC BY

Abstract: Abstract In weakly coupled BCS superconductors, only electrons within a tiny energy window around the Fermi energy, EF, form Cooper pairs. This may not be the case in strong coupling superconductors such as cuprates, FeSe, SrTiO3 or cold atom condensates where the pairing scale, EB, becomes comparable or even larger than EF. In cuprates, for example, a plausible candidate for the pseudogap state at low doping is a fluctuating pair density wave, but no microscopic model has yet been found which supports such a state. In this work, we write an analytically solvable model to examine pairing phases in the strongly coupled regime and in the presence of anisotropic interactions. Already for moderate coupling we find an unusual finite temperature phase, below an instability temperature Ti, where local pair correlations have non-zero center-of-mass momentum but lack long-range order. At low temperature, this fluctuating pair density wave can condense either to a uniform d-wave super- conductor or the widely postulated pair-density wave phase depending on the interaction strength. Our minimal model offers a unified microscopic framework to understand the emergence of both fluctuating and long range pair density waves in realistic systems.

Published on 01 Jun. 2023