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Modeling a striped pseudogap state
We study the electronic structure within a system of phase-decoupled
one-dimensional superconductors coexisting with stripe spin and charge density
wave order. This system has a nodal Fermi surface (Fermi arc) in the form of a
hole pocket and an antinodal pseudogap. The spectral function in the antinodes
is approximately particle-hole symmetric contrary to the gapped regions just
outside the pocket. We find that states at the Fermi energy are extended
whereas states near the pseudogap energy have localization lengths as short as
the inter-stripe spacing. We consider pairing which has either local d-wave or
s-wave symmetry and find similar results in both cases, consistent with the
pseudogap being an effect of local pair correlations. We suggest that this
state is a stripe ordered caricature of the pseudogap phase in underdoped
cuprates with coexisting spin-, charge-, and pair-density wave correlations.
Lastly, we also model a superconducting state which 1) evolves smoothly from
the pseudogap state, 2) has a signature subgap peak in the density of states,
and 3) has the coherent pair density concentrated to the nodal region.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, extended discussion, added references; v3,
added figure of antinodal spectra for normal/pseudo/sc state
Addendum to ``Multichannel Kondo screening in a one-dimensional correlated electron system''
This is an addendum to our previous work cond-mat/9705048 (published in
Europhysics Letters 41, 213 (1998)), clarifying the construction of the
two-particle scattering matrices used for studying the magnetic impurity
behavior in a multichannel correlated host.Comment: Addendum to cond-mat/9705048 (Europhys. Lett. 41, 213 (1998)
Suppression of superfluid stiffness near Lifshitz-point instability to finite momentum superconductivity
We derive the effective Ginzburg-Landau theory for finite momentum (FFLO/PDW)
superconductivity without spin population imbalance from a model with local
attraction and repulsive pair-hopping. We find that the GL free energy must
include up to sixth order derivatives of the order parameter, providing a
unified description of the interdependency of zero and finite momentum
superconductivity. For weak pair-hopping the phase diagram contains a line of
Lifshitz points where vanishing superfluid stiffness induces a continuous
change to a long wavelength Fulde-Ferrell (FF) state. For larger pair-hopping
there is a bicritical region where the pair-momentum changes discontinuously.
Here the FF type state is near degenerate with the Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LO) or
Pair-Density-wave (PDW) type state. At the intersection of these two regimes
there is a "Super-Lifshitz" point with extra soft fluctuations. The instability
to finite momentum superconductivity occurs for arbitrarily weak pair-hopping
for sufficiently large attraction suggesting that even a small repulsive
pair-hopping may be significant in a microscopic model of strongly correlated
superconductivity. Several generic features of the model may have bearing on
the cuprate superconductors, including the suppression of superfluid stiffness
in proximity to a Lifshitz point as well as the existence of subleading FFLO
order (or vice versa) in the bicritical regime
Advection Dominated Accretion Flows Around Kerr Black Holes
We derive all relevant equations needed for constructing a global general
relativistic model of advectively cooled, very hot, optically thin accretion
disks around black holes and present solutions which describe advection
dominated flows in the gravitational field of a Kerr black hole.Comment: ApJ submitte
Multichannel Kondo Screening in a One-Dimensional Correlated Electron System
We present the exact Bethe Ansatz solution of a multichannel model of one-
dimensional correlated electrons coupled antiferromagnetically to a magnetic
impurity of arbitrary spin S. The solution reveals that interactions in the
bulk make the magnetic impurity drive both spin and charge fluctuations,
producing a mixed valence at the impurity site, with an associated effective
spin S_eff > S in the presence of a magnetic field. The screening of the
impurity spin is controlled by its size independently of the number of
channels, in contrast to the multichannel Kondo effect for free electrons.Comment: 5 pages Revtex. Final revised version to appear in Europhys. Let
Anharmonic softening of Raman active phonons in Iron-Pnictides; estimating the Fe isotope effect due to anharmonic expansion
We present Raman measurements on the iron-pnictide superconductors
CeFeAsO_{1-x}F_{x} and NdFeAsO{1-x}F_{x}. Modeling the Fe-As plane in terms of
harmonic and a cubic anharmonic Fe-As interaction we calculate the temperature
dependence of the energy and lifetime of the Raman active Fe B_{1g} mode and
fit to the observed energy shift. The shifts and lifetimes are in good
agreement with those measured also in other Raman studies which demonstrate
that the phonon spectrum is well represented by phonon-phonon interactions
without any significant electronic contribution. We also estimate the
anharmonic expansion from Fe (56->54) isotope substitution to \Delta a=5.1
10^{-4}\AA and \Delta d_{Fe-As}= 2.510^{-4}\AA and the shift of harmonic zero
point fluctuations of bond lengths <=3 10^{-5}\AA^2, giving a total
relative average decrease of electronic hopping integrals of |\delta t|/t<= 2.0
10^{-4}. The results poses a serious challenge for any theory of
superconductivity in the pnictides that does not include electron-phonon
interactions to produce a sizable Fe-isotope effect.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
The Dynamical Mean Field Theory phase space extension and critical properties of the finite temperature Mott transition
We consider the finite temperature metal-insulator transition in the half
filled paramagnetic Hubbard model on the infinite dimensional Bethe lattice. A
new method for calculating the Dynamical Mean Field Theory fixpoint surface in
the phase diagram is presented and shown to be free from the convergence
problems of standard forward recursion. The fixpoint equation is then analyzed
using dynamical systems methods. On the fixpoint surface the eigenspectra of
its Jacobian is used to characterize the hysteresis boundaries of the first
order transition line and its second order critical end point. The critical
point is shown to be a cusp catastrophe in the parameter space, opening a
pitchfork bifurcation along the first order transition line, while the
hysteresis boundaries are shown to be saddle-node bifurcations of two merging
fixpoints. Using Landau theory the properties of the critical end point is
determined and related to the critical eigenmode of the Jacobian. Our findings
provide new insights into basic properties of this intensively studied
transition.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figures, 1 tabl
Superconductivity in hole-doped C60 from electronic correlations
We derive a model for the highest occupied molecular orbital band of a C60
crystal which includes on-site electron-electron interactions. The form of the
interactions are based on the icosahedral symmetry of the C60 molecule together
with a perturbative treatment of an isolated C60 molecule. Using this model we
do a mean-field calculation in two dimensions on the [100] surface of the
crystal. Due to the multi-band nature we find that electron-electron
interactions can have a profound effect on the density of states as a function
of doping. The doping dependence of the transition temperature can then be
qualitatively different from that expected from simple BCS theory based on the
density of states from band structure calculations
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