Superconductivity and nematic fluctuations in a model of doped FeSe monolayers: Determinant quantum Monte Carlo study

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作者
Dumitrescu, Philipp T. [1 ]
Serbyn, Maksym [1 ]
Scalettar, Richard T. [2 ]
Vishwanath, Ashvin [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Phys, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[3] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Labs, Div Mat Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
关键词
SINGLE-LAYER FESE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; T-C; PHASE-DIAGRAM; 65; K; SRTIO3; FILMS; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; BEHAVIOR; LIQUID;
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10.1103/PhysRevB.94.155127
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
In contrast to bulk FeSe, which exhibits nematic order and low temperature superconductivity, highly doped FeSe reverses the situation, having high temperature superconductivity appearing alongside a suppression of nematic order. To investigate this phenomenon, we study a minimal electronic model of FeSe, with interactions that enhance nematic fluctuations. This model is sign problem free, and is simulated using determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC). We developed a DQMC algorithm with parallel tempering, which proves to be an efficient source of global updates and allows us to access the region of strong interactions. Over a wide range of intermediate couplings, we observe superconductivity with an extended s-wave order parameter, along with enhanced, but short-ranged, q = (0,0) ferro-orbital (nematic) order. These results are consistent with approximate weak-coupling treatments that predict that nematic fluctuations lead to superconducting pairing. Surprisingly, in the parameter range under study, we do not observe nematic long-range order. Instead, at stronger coupling an unusual insulating phase with q = (pi, pi) antiferro-orbital order appears, which is missed by weak-coupling approximations.
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