Pairing in a dry Fermi sea

Maier, Thomas A.; Staar, Peter; Mishra, V.; Chatterjee, Utpal; Campuzano, J. C.; Scalapino, Douglas J.

doi:10.1038/ncomms11875

Title: Pairing in a dry Fermi sea

Journal Article · Fri Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11875· OSTI ID:1302900

Maier, Thomas A. ^[1]; Staar, Peter ^[2]; Mishra, V. ^[3]; Chatterjee, Utpal ^[4]; Campuzano, J. C. ^[5]; Scalapino, Douglas J. ^[6]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
IBM Research, Zurich (Switzerland)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Joint Inst. of Computational Sciences
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics

In the traditional Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory of superconductivity, the amplitude for the propagation of a pair of electrons with momentum k and -k has a log singularity as the temperature decreases. This so-called Cooper instability arises from the presence of an electron Fermi sea. It means that an attractive interaction, no matter how weak, will eventually lead to a pairing instability. However, in the pseudogap regime of the cuprate superconductors, where parts of the Fermi surface are destroyed, this log singularity is suppressed, raising the question of how pairing occurs in the absence of a Fermi sea. In this paper, we report Hubbard model numerical results and the analysis of angular-resolved photoemission experiments on a cuprate superconductor. Finally, in contrast to the traditional theory, we find that in the pseudogap regime the pairing instability arises from an increase in the strength of the spin–fluctuation pairing interaction as the temperature decreases rather than the Cooper log instability.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

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Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

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