Superconductivity Emerging from Excitonic Mott insulator - Theory of Alkaline Doped Fullerene

Abstract

A three-orbital model derived from the two-dimensional projection of the $ab$ $initio$ Hamiltonian for alkaline doped fullerene A${}_3$C${}_{60}$ with A=Cs,Rb,K is studied by a variational Monte Carlo method. We correctly reproduce the experimental isotropic s-wave superconductivity around the $ab$ $initio$ parameters. With narrowing the bandwidth, the transition to an insulator is also reproduced, where orbital symmetry is found to be spontaneously broken with emergence of an excitonic Mott insulator for two orbitals and an antiferromagnetic insulator nearly degenerate with a spin liquid for the third orbital. The superconductivity is a consequence of exciton melting.

arXiv comment10 pages, 10 figures

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