Competition between Superconductivity and Charge Density Waves: the Role of Disorder

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2009-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/0906.1159v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

162 pages, PhD thesis

Scientific paper

More recently STM experimets present firm evidence of some kind of charge modulation in underdoped cuprates. The peculiar observations of the above experiments are located in the so called pseudo-gap region of the phase diagram, just over the superconducting-dome. The model that will be used captures in a simple way the idea that the pseudo-gap phase is formed of bound fermion pairs which are close to a CDW instability but generally do not have long range order due to quenched disorder. Thus the charge degrees of freedom will be modeled by an Ising order parameter in the presence of quenched disorder, so representing a charge glassy phase. This glassy phase will be in competition with a superconducting phase modeled by a complex order parameter. As a first step we will study the model in one dimension without disorder to familiarize with it and also to search for a possible explanation of the Giant Proximity Effect (GPE). After that we will investigate numerically the ground state properties of the 2-dimensional lattice model, focusing our attention especially on the stiffness and magnetization of the system in the xy plane. We will show that disorder can induce superconductivity in a CDW phase. This picture is really interesting because it could show how an insulating system can produce a superconducting phase thank to the interplay with impurites.

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