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Superconductivity from a confinement transition out of a fractionalized Fermi liquid with Z2 topological and Ising-nematic orders

Shubhayu Chatterjee, Yang Qi, Subir Sachdev, and Julia Steinberg
Phys. Rev. B 94, 024502 – Published 5 July 2016

Abstract

The Schwinger boson theory of the frustrated square lattice antiferromagnet yields a stable, gapped Z2 spin liquid ground state with time-reversal symmetry, incommensurate spin correlations, and long-range Ising-nematic order. We obtain an equivalent description of this state using fermionic spinons (the fermionic spinons can be considered to be bound states of the bosonic spinons and the visons). Upon doping, the Z2 spin liquid can lead to a fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) with small Fermi pockets of electronlike quasiparticles, while preserving the Z2 topological and Ising-nematic orders. We describe a Higgs transition out of this deconfined metallic state into a confining superconducting state which is almost always of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov type, with spatial modulation of the superconducting order.

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  • Received 5 April 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.024502

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

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Shubhayu Chatterjee1, Yang Qi2,3, Subir Sachdev1,3, and Julia Steinberg1

  • 1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 2Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2Y5

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Vol. 94, Iss. 2 — 1 July 2016

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