Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-06-11
Phys. Rev. B 81, 214525 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
6 pages, 4 figures, and 2 tables
Scientific paper
Recent scanning tunneling microscopy measurements on cuprate superconductors have revealed remarkable spatial inhomogeneities in the single-particle energy gap. Using cellular dynamical mean-field theory, we study the zero temperature superconducting properties of a single-band Hubbard model with a spatial modulation of the electron density. We find that the inhomogeneity in the electronic structure results in a substantial spatial variation in the superconducting order parameter and single-particle energy gap, reminiscent of the experimental results. In particular, we find that the order parameter and gap amplitudes in the hole-rich regions are significantly enhanced over the corresponding quantities in a uniform system, if the hole-rich regions are embedded in regions with smaller hole density.
Maier Thomas A.
Okamoto Satoshi
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