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Pairing instabilities of the Yukawa-SYK models with controlled fermion incoherence

Authors :
Wonjune Choi, Omid Tavakol, Yong Baek Kim
Source :
SciPost Physics, Vol 12, Iss 5, p 151 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
SciPost, 2022.

Abstract

The interplay of non-Fermi liquid and superconductivity born out of strong dynamical interactions is at the heart of the physics of unconventional superconductivity. As a solvable platform of the strongly correlated superconductors, we study the pairing instabilities of the Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (Yukawa-SYK) model, which describes spin-1/2 fermions coupled to bosons by the random, all-to-all, spin-independent and dependent Yukawa interactions. In contrast to the previously studied models, the random Yukawa couplings are sampled from a collection of Gaussian ensembles whose variances follow a continuous distribution rather than being fixed to a constant. By tuning the analytic behaviour of the distribution, we could control the fermion incoherence to systematically examine various normal states ranging from the Fermi liquid to non-Fermi liquids that are different from the conformal solution of the SYK model with a constant variance. Using the linearised Eliashberg theory, we show that the onset of the unconventional spin-triplet pairing is preferred with the spin-dependent interactions while all pairing channels show instabilities with the spin-independent interactions. Although the interactions shorten the lifetime of the fermions in the non-Fermi liquid, the same interactions also dress the bosons to strengthen the tendency to pair the incoherent fermions. As a consequence, the onset temperature $T_c$ of the pairing is enhanced in the non-Fermi liquid compared to the case of the Fermi liquid.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
QC1-999

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
25424653
Volume :
12
Issue :
5
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
SciPost Physics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.0da52c60c960443d898b93002a801f6a
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.5.151