Superconductivity from repulsive interactions on the kagome lattice

  • The discovery of superconductivity in layered vanadium-based kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A: K, Rb, Cs) has added a new family of materials to the growing class of possible unconventional superconductors. However, the nature of the superconducting pairing in these materials remains elusive. We present a microscopic theoretical study of the leading superconducting instabilities on the kagome lattice based on spin- and charge-fluctuation mediated Cooper pairing. The applied methodology includes effects of both on-site and nearest-neighbor repulsive Coulomb interactions. Near the upper van Hove filling -- relevant for the AV3Sb5 materials -- we find a rich phase diagram with several pairing symmetries being nearly degenerate. In particular, while a substantial fraction of the phase diagram is occupied by a spin-singlet order parameter transforming as a two-dimensional irreducible representation of the point group, several nodal spin-triplet pairing states remain competitive. We compute the band and interaction parameter-dependence of the hierarchy of the leading superconducting instabilities, and determine the detailed momentum dependence of the resulting preferred gap structures. Crucially, for moderate values of the interaction parameters, the individual pairing states depend strongly on momentum and exhibit multiple nodes on the Fermi surface. We discuss the properties of these superconducting gap structures in light of recent experimental developments of the AV3Sb5 materials.

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Author:Astrid T. RømerORCiD, Shinibali BhattacharyyaORCiD, Roser ValentíORCiDGND, Morten H. ChristensenORCiD, Brian M. AndersenORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-824611
URL:https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13521v1
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.13521
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13521v1
Parent Title (English):arXiv
Publisher:arXiv
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/08/29
Date of first Publication:2022/08/29
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/02/19
Issue:2208.13521 Version 1
Edition:Version 1
Page Number:14
HeBIS-PPN:51615494X
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0