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arXiv 2501.15428cond-mat.supr-concond-mat.str-el
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优化金属-超导体双层结构的临界温度与超流密度

Optimizing the Critical Temperature and Superfluid Density of a Metal-Superconductor Bilayer

Yutan Zhang, Philip M. Dee, Benjamin Cohen-Stead, Thomas A. Maier, Steven Johnston, Richard Scalettar

AI总结:

通过行列式量子蒙特卡洛模拟金属-超导体双层结构,发现层间杂化可非单调提升强相互作用超导体的临界温度,机制在于增强超流刚度。

摘要:

实现更高超导转变温度$T_c$的一条有前景的途径是对人工异质结构进行战略性工程调控。例如,量子材料原则上可以与其他材料耦合,以产生更 robust 的超导态。在本工作中,我们为以下假设提供了数值支持:一个因相位涨落而被削弱的强相互作用超导体,可以通过与金属杂化来提升其$T_c$。利用行列式量子蒙特卡洛(DQMC)方法,我们模拟了一个由吸引型 Hubbard 模型和金属层组成的二维双层结构,并考虑了相互作用强度$-|U|$的两个区域。在强相互作用区域,我们发现增加层间杂化$t_\perp$会导致$T_c$的非单调增强,其最优值可与单层吸引型 Hubbard 模型中观察到的最大$T_c$相当,这证实了从其他方法推断出的趋势。在中等耦合区域,当$-|U|$接近单层模型中与最大$T_c$相关的值时,增加$t_\perp$倾向于降低$T_c$,这表明关联层已经处于最优调控状态。重要的是,我们证明了这些趋势背后的机制与超流刚度的增强有关,正如 Kivelson 最初提出的那样 [Physica B: Condensed Matter 318, 61 (2002)]。

英文摘要:

A promising path to realizing higher superconducting transition temperatures $T_c$ is the strategic engineering of artificial heterostructures. For example, quantum materials could, in principle, be coupled with other materials to produce a more robust superconducting state. In this work, we add numerical support to the hypothesis that a strongly interacting superconductor weakened by phase fluctuations can boost its $T_c$ by hybridizing the system with a metal. Using determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC), we simulate a two-dimensional bilayer composed of an attractive Hubbard model and a metallic layer in two regimes of the interaction strength $-|U|$. In the strongly interacting regime, we find that increasing the interlayer hybridization $t_\perp$ results in a nonmonotonic enhancement of $T_c$, with an optimal value comparable to the maximum $T_c$ observed in the single-layer attractive Hubbard model, confirming trends inferred from other approaches. In the intermediate coupling regime, when $-|U|$ is close to the value associated with the maximum $T_c$ of the single-layer model, increasing $t_\perp$ tends to decrease $T_c$, implying that the correlated layer was already optimally tuned. Importantly, we demonstrate that the mechanism behind these trends is related to enhancement in the superfluid stiffness, as was initially proposed by Kivelson [Physica B: Condensed Matter 318, 61 (2002)].

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