The charge asymmetry in superconductivity of hole- and electron-doped cuprates

Within the t-t'-J model, the charge asymmetry in superconductivity of hole- and electron-doped cuprates is studied based on the kinetic energy driven superconducting mechanism. It is shown that superconductivity appears over a narrow range of doping in electron-doped cuprates, and the superconducting transition temperature displays the same kind of the doping controlled behavior that is observed in the hole-doped case. However, the maximum achievable superconducting transition temperature in the optimal doping in electron-doped cuprates is much lower than that of the hole-doped case due to the electron-hole asymmetry.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, added discussion

Sign changes and resonance of intrinsic spin Hall effect in two-dimensional hole gas

The intrinsic spin Hall conductance shows rich sign changes by applying a perpendicular magnetic field in a two-dimensional hole gas. Especially, a notable sign changes can be achieved by adjusting the characteristic length of the Rashba coupling and hole density at moderate magnetic fields. This sign issue may be easily realized in experiments. The oscillations of the intrinsic spin Hall conductance as a function of 1/$B$ is nothing else but Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, and the additional beatings can be quantitatively related to the value of the spin-orbit coupling parameter. The Zeeman splitting is too small to introduce effective degeneracy between different Landau levels in a two-dimensional hole gas, and the resonant intrinsic spin Hall conductance appears in high hole density and strong magnetic field due to the transition between mostly spin-$-{1/2}$ holes and spin-3/2 holes is confirmed. Two likely ways to establish intrinsic spin Hall effect in experiments and a possible application are suggested.Comment: Accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters, an enlarged version, 5 pages, 4 fig

A gauge invariant dressed holon and spinon description of the normal-state of underdoped cuprates

A partial charge-spin separation fermion-spin theory is developed to study the normal-state properties of the underdoped cuprates. In this approach, the physical electron is decoupled as a gauge invariant dressed holon and spinon, with the dressed holon behaving like a spinful fermion, and represents the charge degree of freedom together with the phase part of the spin degree of freedom, while the dressed spinon is a hard-core boson, and representing the amplitude part of the spin degree of freedom. The electron local constraint for single occupancy is satisfied. Within this approach, the charge and spin dynamics of the underdoped cuprates are studied based on the t-t'-J model. It is shown that the charge dynamics is mainly governed by the scattering from the dressed holons due to the dressed spinon fluctuation, while the scattering from the dressed spinons due to the dressed holon fluctuation dominates the spin dynamics.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, corrected typo

Spontaneous symmetry breakings in two-dimensional kagome lattice

We study spontaneous symmetry breakings for fermions (spinless and spinful) on a two-dimensional kagome lattice with nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions in weak coupling limit, and focus in particular on topological Mott insulator instability. It is found that at $\frac{1}{3}$-filling where there is a quadratic band crossing at $\Gamma$-point, in agreement with Ref. 1, the instabilities are infinitesimal and topological phases are dynamically generated. At $\frac{2}{3}$-filling where there are two inequivalent Dirac points, the instabilities are finite, and no topological phase is favored at this filling without breaking the lattice translational symmetry. A ferromagnetic quantum anomalous Hall state with infinitesimal instability is further proposed at half-filling of the bottom flat band.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, Published in Phys. Rev.

Ground state pairing correlations in the S4S_4 symmetric microscopic model for iron-based superconductors

We present the ground state pairing correlations in the $S_4$ symmetric microscopic model for iron-based superconductors, computed with the constrained-path Monte Carlo method. For various electron fillings and interaction strengths, we find that the $s_{xy}$ pairing dominates over other pairing correlations and is positive when the pair separation exceeds several lattice constants, whatever for iron pnictides and iron chlcogenides. These ground state properties, especially the long range part pairing correlations re-confirm the previous finite temperature results published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 107002(2013). We further our study by including the nearest neighbour interaction $V$ and it is found that the $s_{xy}$ pairing correlation is slightly suppressed by the increasing $V$.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1202.5881 by other author