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Topological phase transition from nodal to nodeless d-wave superconductivity in electron-doped cuprate superconductors
Unlike the hole-doped cuprates, both nodal and nodeless superconductivity
(SC) are observed in the electron-doped cuprates. To understand these two types
of SC states, we propose a unified theory by considering the two-dimensional
t-J model in proximity to an antiferromagnetic (AF) long-range ordering state.
Within the slave-boson mean-field approximation, the d-wave pairing symmetry is
still the most energetically favorable even in the presence of the external AF
field. In the nodal phase, it is found that the nodes carry vorticity and are
protected by the adjoint symmetry of time-reversal and one unit lattice
translation. Robust edge modes are obtained, suggesting the nodal d-wave SC
being a topological weak-pairing phase. As decreasing the doping concentration
or increasing the AF field, the nodes with opposite vorticity annihilate and
the nodeless strong-pairing phase emerges. The topological phase transition is
characterized by a critical point with anisotropic Bogoliubov quasiparticles,
and a universal understanding is thus established for all electron-doped
cuprates.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures; published versio
Supersolid and pair correlations of the extended Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model on triangular lattices
We study the extended Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model on triangular cavity
lattices and zigzag ladders. By using density-matrix renormalization group
methods, we observe various types of solids with different density patterns and
find evidence for light supersolids, which exist in extended regions of the
phase diagram of the zigzag ladder. Furthermore, we observe strong pair
correlations in the supersolid phase due to the interplay between the atoms in
the cavities and atom-photon interaction. By means of cluster mean-field
simulations and a scaling of the cluster size extending our analysis to
two-dimensional triangular lattices, we present evidence for the emergence of a
light supersolid in this case also.Comment: 11 pages, 16 figure
Two-dimensional topological superconducting phases emerged from d-wave superconductors in proximity to antiferromagnets
Motivated by the recent observations of nodeless superconductivity in the
monolayer CuO grown on the BiSrCaCuO
substrates, we study the two-dimensional superconducting (SC) phases described
by the two-dimensional - model in proximity to an antiferromagnetic (AF)
insulator. We found that (i) the nodal d-wave SC state can be driven via a
continuous transition into a nodeless d-wave pairing state by the proximity
induced AF field. (ii) The energetically favorable pairing states in the strong
field regime have extended s-wave symmetry and can be nodal or nodeless. (iii)
Between the pure d-wave and s-wave paired phases, there emerge two
topologically distinct SC phases with (i) symmetry, i.e., the weak and
strong pairing phases, and the weak pairing phase is found to be a
topological superconductor protected by valley symmetry, exhibiting robust
gapless non-chiral edge modes. These findings strongly suggest that the
high- superconductors in proximity to antiferromagnets can realize fully
gapped symmetry protected topological SC.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures; revised versio
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