Superconductivity from a non-Fermi liquid metal : Kondo fluctuation mechanism in the slave-fermion theory

Abstract

We find new mechanism of superconductivity beyond the spin-fluctuation theory, the standard model for unconventional superconductivity in the weak coupling approach, where Kondo fluctuations result in multi-gap superconductivity around an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point of the slave-fermion theory. Fingerprints of the hybridization mechanism are two kinds of resonance modes in not only spin but also charge fluctuations, originating from $d-wave$ pairing of conduction electrons and spinless holons, respectively, thus differentiated from the spin-fluctuation mechanism. We show that the ratio between each superconducting gap for conduction electrons ${\Delta }_c$ and holons ${\Delta }_f$ and the transition temperature $T_c$ is $2{\Delta }_c/T_c\sim 9$ and $2{\Delta }_f/T_c\sim \mathcal{O}(10^{-1})$, remarkably consistent with $CeCoI{n}_5$.

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