Thermodynamic signatures of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point inside a superconducting dome
Vanuildo S. de Carvalho, Andrey V. Chubukov and Rafael M. Fernandes
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Agradecimentos: We would like to thank Eduardo Miranda, Hermann Freire, and especially Subir Sachdev for stimulating discussions. V.S.deC. acknowledges financial support from FAPESP under Grants No. 2016/05069-7 and No. 2017/16911-3. A.V.C. was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of...
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Agradecimentos: We would like to thank Eduardo Miranda, Hermann Freire, and especially Subir Sachdev for stimulating discussions. V.S.deC. acknowledges financial support from FAPESP under Grants No. 2016/05069-7 and No. 2017/16911-3. A.V.C. was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. DE-SC0014402. R.M.F. was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. DE-SC0020045
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Abstract: Recent experiments in unconventional superconductors, and in particular iron-based materials, have reported evidence of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (AFM-QCP) emerging inside the superconducting dome of the phase diagram. Fluctuations associated with such an AFM-QCP are...
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Abstract: Recent experiments in unconventional superconductors, and in particular iron-based materials, have reported evidence of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (AFM-QCP) emerging inside the superconducting dome of the phase diagram. Fluctuations associated with such an AFM-QCP are expected to promote unusual temperature dependencies of thermodynamic quantities. Here, we compute the T dependence of the specific heat C(T) deep inside a fully gapped s(+ -) superconducting state as the AFM-QCP is approached. We find that at the AFM-QCP, the specific heat C(T) vanishes quadratically with temperature, as opposed to the typical exponential suppression seen in fully gapped BCS superconductors. This robust result is due to a nonanalytic contribution to the free energy arising from the general form of the bosonic (AFM) propagator in the SC state. Away from the AFM-QCP, as temperature is lowered, C(T) shows a crossover from a T-2 behavior to an exponential behavior, with the crossover temperature scale set by the value of the superconducting gap and the distance to the QCP. We argue that these features in the specific heat can be used to unambiguously determine the existence of AFM-QCPs inside the superconducting domes of iron-based and other fully gapped unconventional superconductors
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FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESP
2016/05069-7; 2017/16911-3
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Thermodynamic signatures of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point inside a superconducting dome
Vanuildo S. de Carvalho, Andrey V. Chubukov and Rafael M. Fernandes
Thermodynamic signatures of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point inside a superconducting dome
Vanuildo S. de Carvalho, Andrey V. Chubukov and Rafael M. Fernandes
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Physical review. B, Covering condensed matter and materials physics Vol. 102, n. 4 (July, 2020), n. art. 045125, p. 1-10 |