Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems

Details Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems

2010-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2433v1

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.273:012012,2011

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Proceedings article for SCES 2010. To appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/273/1/012012

By analyzing simple models of fermions in lattice potentials we argue that the zero-temperature pairing instability of any ideal band-insulator occurs at a finite momentum. The resulting supersolid state is known as "pair density wave". The pairing momentum at the onset of instability is generally incommensurate as a result of phase-space restrictions and relative strengths of interband and intraband pairing. However, commensurate pairing occurs in the strong-coupling limit and becomes a Cooper-channel analogue of the Halperin-Rice exciton condensation instability in indirect bandgap semiconductors. The exceptional sensitivity of incommensurate pairing to quantum fluctuations can lead to a strongly-correlated insulating regime and a non-BCS transition, even in the case of weak coupling as shown by an exact renormalization group analysis.

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