Published February 27, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Simple solvable model for heavy-fermion superconductivity from the two-fluid normal state

  • 1. School of Physics, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121, China
  • 2. Institute of Quantum Materials and Physics, Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan 450046, China
  • 3. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 4. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 5. School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 6. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China

Description

Heavy-fermion superconductors exhibit unusual properties such as low transition temperatures, large specific heat jumps, and normal states with universal two-fluid behaviors. Standard theoretical models such as the Anderson or Kondo lattices often require uncontrolled approximations to solve. Here, we propose an exactly solvable Kondo lattice model with a local-in-momentum Kondo interaction, which can be derived from an Anderson lattice with a Hatsugai-Kohmoto interaction between f electrons. As the Kondo coupling increases, the normal state evolves from a Fermi liquid to a non-Fermi liquid two-fluid state. With a pairing interaction between electrons, the model exhibits a crossover from a weak-coupling superconductor to a strong-coupling one showing many important features of heavy-fermion superconductivity, including the formation of Kondo-induced composite-fermion Cooper pairs, the analog of heavy-electron Cooper pairs in real materials.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.109.064517;
arXiv
arXiv:2309.10540;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001809; 10.13039/501100012226; 10.13039/501100012166; 10.13039/501100002367;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
10 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
12304174; 12174429; 11974397; E2E44305; 2022YFA1402203; XDB33010100
Notes
Contact Email: jfwang@hznu.edu.cn; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
National Natural Science Foundation of China; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; National Key Research and Development Program of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences