Interplay of Pomeranchuk instability and superconductivity in the two-dimensional repulsive Hubbard model

Abstract

Interplay of Pomeranchuk instability (spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Fermi surface) and d-wave superconductivity is studied for the repulsive Hubbard model on the square lattice with the dynamical mean-field theory combined with the fluctuation exchange approximation (FLEX+DMFT). We show that the fourfold symmetric Fermi surface becomes unstable against a spontaneous distortion into twofold near the van Hove filling, where the symmetry of superconductivity coexisting with the Pomeranchuk-distorted Fermi surface is modified from the d-wave pairing to the (d+s) wave. By systematically shifting the position of van Hove filling with varied second- and third-neighbor hoppings, we find that the transition temperature TcPI for the Pomeranchuk instability is more sensitively affected by the position of van Hove filling than the superconducting TcSC. This implies that the filling region for strong Pomeranchuk instability and that for the TcSC dome can be separated, and that Pomeranchuk instability can appear even if the peak of TcPI is lower than the peak of TcSC. An interesting finding is that the Fermi surface distortion can enhance the superconducting TcSC in the overdoped regime, which is explained with a perturbational picture for small distortions.

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