Effect of inhomogeneity on s-wave superconductivity in the attractive Hubbard model

Details Effect of inhomogeneity on s-wave superconductivity in the attractive Hubbard model Effect of inhomogeneity on s-wave superconductivity in the attractive Hubbard model

2005-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507588v2

Phys. Rev. B 73, 104518 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.104518

Inhomogeneous s-wave superconductivity is studied in the two-dimensional, square lattice attractive Hubbard Hamiltonian using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) mean field approximation. We find that at weak coupling, and for densities mainly below half-filling, an inhomogeneous interaction in which the on-site interaction $U_i$ takes on two values, $U_i=0, 2U$ results in a larger zero temperature pairing amplitude, and that the superconducting $T_c$ can also be significantly increased, relative to a uniform system with $U_i=U$ on all sites. These effects are observed for stripe, checkerboard, and even random patterns of the attractive centers, suggesting that the pattern of inhomogeneity is unimportant. Monte Carlo calculations which reintroduce some of the fluctuations neglected within the BdG approach see the same effect, both for the attractive Hubbard model and a Hamiltonian with d-wave pairing symmetry.

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