Coexistence of spin-density wave and d-wave superconducting order parameter

Zaira Nazario; David I. Santiago

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.70.144513

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Coexistence of spin-density wave and d-wave superconducting order parameter

Zaira Nazario, David I. Santiago

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.144513 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We study the properties of a spin-density-wave antiferromagnetic mean-field ground state with d-wave superconducting correlations. This ground state always gains energy by Cooper pairing. It would fail to superconduct at half-filling due to the antiferromagnetic gap although its particle-like excitations would be Bogolyubov-BCS quasiparticles consisting of coherent mixtures of electrons and holes. More interesting and relevant to the superconducting cuprates is the case when antiferromagnetic order is turned on weakly on top of the superconductivity. This would correspond to the onset of antiferromagnetism at a critical doping. In such a case a small gap proportional to the weak antiferromagnetic gap opens up for nodal quasiparticles, and the quasiparticle peak would be discernible. We evaluate numerically the absorption by nodal quasiparticles and the local density of states for several ground states with antiferromagnetic and d-wave superconducting correlations.