Additional electron pairing in a d-wave superconductor driven by nematic order
arXiv:1207.6800 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/15/6/063007
Abstract
We perform a non-perturbative analysis of the strong interaction between gapless nodal fermions and the nematic order parameter in two-dimensional d_{x^2-y^2} superconductors. We predict that the critical nematic fluctuation can generate a dynamical nodal gap if the fermion flavor N is smaller than a threshold N_c. Such gap generation leads to an additional is-wave Cooper pairing instability, which induces a fully gapped d_{x^2-y^2}+is superconducting dome in the vicinity of the nematic quantum critical point. The opening of a dynamical gap has important consequences, including the saturation of fermion velocity renormalization, a weak confinement of fermions and the suppression of observable quantities.
13 pages, 4 figures
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