Enhancement of superconductivity at the onset of charge-density-wave order in a metal

Abstract

We analyze superconductivity in the cuprates near the onset of an incommensurate charge density wave (CDW) order with momentum $\mathbf{Q}=(Q,0)/(0,Q)$, as observed in the experiments. We first consider a semi-phenomenological charge-fermion model in which hot fermions, separated by $\mathbf{Q}$, attract each other by exchanging soft CDW fluctuations. We find that in a quantum-critical region near CDW transition, $T_c=A{\bar{g}}_c$, where ${\bar{g}}_c$ is charge-fermion coupling and $A$ is the prefactor which we explicitly compute. We then consider the particular microscopic scenario in which CDW order parameter emerges as a composite field made out of primary spin-density-wave fields. We show that charge-fermion coupling ${\bar{g}}_c$ is of order of spin-fermion coupling ${\bar{g}}_s$. As the consequence, superconducting $T_c$ is substantially enhanced near the onset of CDW order. Finally we analyze the effect of an external magnetic field $H$. We show that, as $H$ increases, optimal $T_c$ decreases and the superconducting dome becomes progressively more confined to the CDW quantum-critical point. These results are consistent with the experiments.

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