Microscopic theory of non local pair correlations in metallic F/S/F trilayers

We consider a microscopic theory of F/S/F trilayers with metallic or insulating ferromagnets. The trilayer with metallic ferromagnets is controlled by the formation of non local pair correlations among the two ferromagnets which do not exist with insulating ferromagnets. The difference between the insulating and ferromagnetic models can be understood from lowest order diagrams. Metallic ferromagnets are controlled by non local pair correlations and the superconducting gap is larger if the ferromagnetic electrodes have a parallel spin orientation. Insulating ferromagnets are controlled by pair breaking and the superconducting gap is smaller if the ferromagnetic electrodes have a parallel spin orientation. The same behavior is found in the presence of disorder in the microscopic phase variables and also in the presence of a partial spin polarization of the ferromagnets. The different behaviors of the metallic and insulating trilayers may be probed in experiments.Comment: 28 pages, 18 figures, revised versio

High energy shift in the optical conductivity spectrum of the bilayer graphene

We calculate theoretically the optical conductivity in the bilayer graphene by considering Kubo-Green-Matsubara formalism. Different regimes of the interlayer coupling parameter have been considered in the paper. We show that the excitonic effects substantially affect the optical conductivity spectrum at the high-frequency regime when considering the full interaction bandwidth, leading to a total suppression of the usual Drude intraband optical transition channels and by creating a new type of optical gap. We discuss the role of the interlayer coupling parameter and the Fermi level on the conductivity spectrum, going far beyond the usual tight-binding approximation scheme for the extrinsic bilayer graphene.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure

Excitonic phase transition in the extended three-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model

We study the excitonic phase transition in a system of the conduction band electrons and valence band holes described by the three-dimensional (3D) extended Falicov-Kimball (EFKM) model with the tunable Coulomb interaction $U$ between both species. By lowering the temperature, the electron-hole system may become unstable with respect to the formation of the excitons, i.e, electron-hole pairs at temperature $T=T_{\Delta}$, exhibiting a gap $\Delta$ in the particle excitation spectrum. To this end we implement the functional integral formulation of the EFKM, where the Coulomb interaction term is expressed in terms of U(1) phase variables conjugate to the local particle number, providing a useful representation of strongly correlated system. The effective action formalism allows us to formulate a problem in the phase-only action in the form of the quantum rotor model and to obtain analytical formula for the critical lines and other quantities of physical interest like charge gap, chemical potential and the correlation length.Comment: 27 pages, 15 figures (in the arXive version), 37 pages and 15 figures (in the published version

Probing phase coherence via density of states for strongly correlated excitons

We present the calculation of the coherent spectral functions and density of states (DOS) for excitonic systems in the frame of the three dimensional extended Falicov-Kimball model. By using gauge-invariant U(1) transformation to the usual fermions, we represent the electron operator as a fermion attached to the U(1) phase-flux tube. The emergent bosonic gauge field, related to the phase variables is crucial for the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of excitons. Employing the path-integral formalism, we manipulate the bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom to obtain the effective actions related to fermionic and bosonic sectors. Considering the normal and anomalous excitonic Green functions, we calculate the spectral functions, which have the forms of convolutions in the reciprocal space between bosonic and fermionic counterparts. For the fermionic incoherent part of the DOS we have found the strong evidence of the hybridization-gap in DOS spectra. Furthermore, considering Bogoliubov coherence mechanism, we calculate the coherent DOS spectra. For the coherent normal fermionic DOS, there is no hybridization-gap found in the system due to strong coherence effets and phase stiffness. The similar behavior is observed also for the condensate part of the anomalous excitonic DOS spectra. We show that for small values of the Coulomb interaction, fermionic DOS exhibits a Bardeen-Cooper-Schriffer (BCS) -like double-peak structure. In the BEC region of the BCS-BEC crossover, the double-peak structure disappears totally for both: coherent and incoherent DOS spectra. We discuss also, temperature dependence of DOS functions.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures (in the arXive version), 36 pages, 9 figures (in the published version