Surprises in the t-J model: Implications for cuprates

Abstract

The t-J model is a paradigmatic model for the study of strongly correlated electron systems. In particular, it has been argued that it is an appropriate model to describe the cuprate high-Tc superconductors. It turns out that a comprehensive understanding of the gamut of physics encoded by the t-J model is still an open problem. In recent years some remarkable experiments on the cuprates, for example, discovery of nodeless superconductivity in underdoped samples (PNAS 109, 18332 (2012)), discovery of s-wave like gap in the pseudogap phase (Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 107001 (2013)), and observation of polar Kerr effect (PKE) (Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 047003 (2014)), have thrown up new challenges for this model. Here, we present results demonstrating that, within the slave-particle formulation of the t-J model, the d-wave superconductor is unstable at low doping to its own anti-symmetric phase mode fluctuations when the effect of fluctuations is treated self-consistently. We then show that this instability gives way to a time reversal symmetry broken d + is-SC in the underdoped region which has superfluid stiffness consistent with Uemura relation, even with a large pair amplitude. We show that our results are consistent with existing experiments on cuprates and suggest that Josephson (SQUID interferometry) experiments can clearly distinguish the d+is-SC from a host of other possibilities alluded to be contributing to the physics of underdoped cuprates. We also comment on other theoretical studies vis-a-vis ours.

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