Unconventional Superconductivity from Local Spin Fluctuations in the Kondo Lattice
Oliver Bodensiek, Rok Žitko, Matthias Vojta, Mark Jarrell, Thomas Pruschke
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.146406 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
The explanation of heavy-fermion superconductivity is a long-standing challenge to theory. It is commonly thought to be connected to nonlocal fluctuations of either spin or charge degrees of freedom and therefore of unconventional type. Here we present results for the Kondo-lattice model, a paradigmatic model to describe heavy-fermion compounds, obtained from dynamical mean-field theory which captures local correlation effects only. Unexpectedly, we find robust s-wave superconductivity in the heavy-fermion state. We argue that this novel type of pairing is tightly connected to the formation of heavy quasiparticle bands and the presence of strong local spin fluctuations.
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