Theory of superconductivity and mass enhancement near CDW critical point based on Bethe-Salpeter equation method: application to cuprates

TL;DR

This paper develops a Bethe-Salpeter equation approach to study charge and spin fluctuations in Hubbard models, explaining high-temperature d-wave superconductivity and mass enhancement near charge-order critical points in cuprates.

Contribution

It introduces a Bethe-Salpeter equation method that captures vertex corrections, revealing the role of charge and spin fluctuations in superconductivity and mass enhancement.

Findings

Attractive charge interactions emerge from vertex corrections.

High-$T_c$ d-wave superconductivity is explained by charge and spin fluctuation cooperation.

Mass enhancement occurs near the charge-order quantum critical point.

Abstract

In recent years, charge-channel orders in strongly correlated metals have attracted great attention. Famous examples are the electronic nematic orders in cuprates and iron-based superconductors, and Star-of-David order in kagome metals. Critical phenomena and unconventional superconductivity arising from fluctuations of such charge-channel orders are central issues today; however, the essential role is played by the vertex corrections, which are the many-body effects that are dropped in conventional mean-field type approximations. To solve this difficulty, in this study, we propose the Bethe-Salpeter equation theory to evaluate electron-electron interactions in two dimensional Hubbard models. This method satisfies the criteria of the Baym-Kadanoff conserving approximation. Here, we find that an attractive interaction in the charge channel emerges from the Aslamazov-Larkin vertex corrections that describe the interference processes among spin fluctuations. Applying this method to the square-lattice Hubbard model, we reveal that the cooperation of attractive charge fluctuations and repulsive spin fluctuations yields high-$T_c$ $d$-wave superconductivity together with enhanced effective mass. These results naturally explain the phase diagram of cuprate superconductors, where strong-coupling $d$-wave superconductivity appears near the charge-order quantum critical point. The theory can also be applied to multi-orbital Hubbard models, like iron-based and nickelate superconductors, suggesting broad potential for future applications.