Charge-4e superconductors: a Majorana quantum Monte Carlo study

Abstract

Many features of charge-4e superconductors remain unknown because even the "mean-field Hamiltonian" describing them is an interacting model. Here we introduce an interacting model to describe a charge-4e superconductor (SC) deep in the superconducting phase, and explore its properties using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations. The QMC is sign-problem-free, but only when a Majorana representation is employed. As a function of the chemical potential we observe two sharply-distinct behaviors: a "strong" quarteting phase in which charge-4e quartets are tightly bound (like molecules) so that charge-2e pairing does not occur even in the temperature $T\to 0$ limit, and a "weak" quarteting phase in which a further transition to a charge-2e superconducting phase occurs at a lower critical temperature. Analogous issues arise in a putative Z4 spin-liquid with a pseudo-Fermi surface and in characterizing charge-2e SCs with "odd frequency pairing" (or equivalently with a "composite order parameter") and metallic spin-nematics. Under certain circumstances, we also identified a stable T=0 charge-4e SC phase with gapless nodal quasiparticles. We further discuss possible relevance of our results to various experimental observations in 1/8-doped LBCO.

5 pages, 3 figures

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