Comments on Extended t-J Models, Nodal Liquids and Supersymmetry

TL;DR

This paper explores extended t-J models with intersite Coulomb interactions, discussing nodal liquids, potential supersymmetry at specific parameter points, and their implications for high-temperature superconductivity, including possible Kosterlitz-Thouless type superconductivity.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of supersymmetric points in extended t-J models and analyzes their relevance to nodal liquids and high-temperature superconductivity.

Findings

Supersymmetric points may occur in extended t-J models.

Nodal liquids at these points could exhibit Kosterlitz-Thouless superconductivity.

Continuum effective field theories may capture key physics of lattice models.

Abstract

In the context of extended t-J models, with intersite Coulomb interactions, nodal liquids are discussed. We use the spin-charge separation ansatz as applied to the nodes of a d-wave superconducting gap. Such a situation may be of relevance to the physics of high-temperature superconductivity. We point out the possibility that at certain points of the parameter space supersymmetric points may occur, characterized by dynamical supersymmetries between the spinon and holon degrees of freedom, which are quite different from the symmetries in conventional supersymmetric t-J models. Such symmetries pertain to the continuum effective field theory of the nodal liquid, and one's hope is that the ancestor lattice model may differ from the continuum theory only by renormalization-group irrelevant operators in the infrared. We give plausible arguments that nodal liquids at such supersymmetric points are characterized by superconductivity of Kosterlitz-Thouless type.