Effective action for phase fluctuations in d-wave superconductors near a Mott transition

D. Bensimon and R. Zeyher ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2007, vol. 59, issue 2, 141-150

Abstract: Phase fluctuations of a d-wave superconducting order parameter are theoretically studied in the context of high-T c cuprates. We consider an extended t-J model describing electrons in a layer which also contains long-range Coulomb interactions. The constraint of having at most singly occupied sites is enforced by an additional Hubbard term. The Heisenberg interaction is decoupled by a d-wave order parameter in the particle-particle channel. Assuming first that the equilibrium state has long-range phase order, the effective action $\mathcal{S}_\textit{eff}$ is derived perturbatively for small fluctuations within a path integral formalism, in the presence of the Coulomb and Hubbard interaction terms. In a second step, a more general derivation of $\mathcal{S}_\textit{eff}$ is performed in terms of a gradient expansion which only assumes that the gradients of the order parameter are small whereas the value of the phase may be large. We show that in the phase-only approximation the resulting $\mathcal{S}_\textit{eff}$ reduces in leading order in the field gradients to the perturbative one which thus allows to treat also the case without long-range phase order or vortices. Our result generalizes previous expressions for $\mathcal{S}_\textit{eff}$ to the case of interacting electrons, is explicitly gauge invariant, and avoids problematic singular gauge transformations. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

Keywords: 74.40.+k Fluctuations (noise; chaos; nonequilibrium superconductivity; localization; etc.); 74.72.-h Cuprate superconductors (high-Tc and insulating parent compounds); 74.25.Jb Electronic structure; 74.25.Dw Superconductivity phase diagrams (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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