Abstract

We analyze the interplay of antiferromagnetism and pairing in the two-dimensional Hubbard model with a moderate repulsive interaction. Coupled charge, magnetic, and pairing fluctuations above the energy scale of spontaneous symmetry breaking are treated by a functional renormalization group flow, while the formation of gaps and order below that scale is treated in mean-field theory. The full frequency dependences of the interaction vertices and gap functions are taken into account. We compute the magnetic and pairing gap functions as a function of doping $p$ and compare with results from a static approximation. In spite of the strong frequency dependences of the effective interactions and of the pairing gap, important physical results from previous static functional renormalization group calculations are confirmed. In particular, there is a sizable doping regime with robust pairing coexisting with N\'eel or incommensurate antiferromagnetism. The critical temperature for magnetic order is interpreted as the pseudogap crossover temperature. Computing the Kosterlitz-Thouless temperature from the superfluid phase stiffness, we obtain a superconducting dome in the $(p,T)$ phase diagram centered around 15% hole doping.

Highlights

  • After the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates, Anderson [1] proposed the twodimensional Hubbard model to describe the behavior of the valence electrons in the copper-oxygen planes

  • In the present paper we address this issue by using a dynamical extension of the functional renormalization group (fRG)+mean-field theory (MFT) method with full frequency dependence to compute the magnetic and pairing gap functions for the repulsive two-dimensional Hubbard model with a moderate interaction strength

  • While magnetism is the leading instability in a broad doping range, we find that robust pairing with a sizable pairing gap emerges in coexistence with antiferromagnetism at energy scales below c around optimal doping

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

After the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates, Anderson [1] proposed the twodimensional Hubbard model to describe the behavior of the valence electrons in the copper-oxygen planes. It turned out that the frequency dependence leads to an expansion of the parameter regime where antiferromagnetism is the first instability (at the critical scale c), with rather weak pairing interactions at that scale This cast some doubt on the robust pairing tendencies obtained in the static fRG. In the present paper we address this issue by using a dynamical extension of the fRG+MFT method with full frequency dependence to compute the magnetic and pairing gap functions for the repulsive two-dimensional Hubbard model with a moderate interaction strength.

FORMALISM
Functional renormalization group
Symmetric regime
Symmetry-broken regime
RESULTS
Order parameters
Flow and frequency dependence
Superfluid stiffness and phase diagram
CONCLUSION
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