Bogoliubov quasiparticle spectra of the effective d-wave model for cuprate superconductivity

TL;DR

This study uses exact diagonalization to analyze the quasiparticle spectra of an effective d-wave model for cuprate superconductivity, revealing conditions for hole pairing and the emergence of Bogoliubov quasiparticles.

Contribution

It demonstrates the existence of d-wave pairing and Bogoliubov quasiparticles in an effective fermion model derived from the t-J model, with estimated gap parameters.

Findings

d-wave pairing occurs in a certain parameter range

Low-lying excitations resemble Bogoliubov quasiparticles

Hole clustering appears at stronger attractions

Abstract

An exact-diagonalization technique on finite-size clusters is used to study the ground state and excitation spectra of the two-dimensional effective fermion model, a fictious model of hole quasiparticles derived from numerical studies of the two-dimensional t-J model at low doping. We show that there is actually a reasonable range of parameter values where the $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave pairing of holes occurs and the low-lying excitation can be described by the picture of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in the BCS pairing theory. The gap parameter of a size $\Delta_d\simeq 0.13|V|$ (where $V$ is the attractive interaction between holes) is estimated at low doping levels. The paired state gives way to the state of clustering of holes for some stronger attractions.