Energetics of superconductivity in the two-dimensional Hubbard model

E. Gull; A. J. Millis

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.241106

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Energetics of superconductivity in the two-dimensional Hubbard model

E. Gull, A. J. Millis

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.241106 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The energetics of the interplay between superconductivity and the pseudogap in high-temperature superconductivity is examined using the eight-site dynamical cluster approximation to the two-dimensional Hubbard model. Two regimes of superconductivity are found: a weak-coupling/large-doping regime in which the onset of superconductivity causes a reduction in potential energy and an increase in kinetic energy, and a strong-coupling regime in which superconductivity is associated with an increase in potential energy and a decrease in kinetic energy. The crossover between the two regimes is found to coincide with the boundary of the normal-state pseudogap, providing further evidence of the unconventional nature of superconductivity in the pseudogap regime. However, the absence, in the strongly correlated but nonsuperconducting state, of discernibly nonlinear response to an applied pairing field suggests that resonating valence bond physics is not the origin of the kinetic-energy driven superconductivity.