Realistic estimates of superconducting properties for the cuprates: reciprocal-space diagrammatic expansion combined with variational approach

Abstract

We propose a systematic approach to the systems of correlated electrons, the so-called $\mathbf{k}$-DE-GWF method, based on reciprocal-space ($\mathbf{k}$-resolved) diagrammatic expansion of the variational Gutzwiller-type wave function for parametrized models of correlated fermions. The present approach, in contrast to either variational Monte-Carlo (VMC), or the recently developed real-space diagrammatic expansion of the Gutzwiller-type wave function (direct-space DE-GWF technique), is applicable directly in the thermodynamic limit and thus is suitable for describing selected singular features of the wave-vector-dependent quantities. We employ the $\mathbf{k}$-DE-GWF method to extract the non-analytic part of the two leading moments of the fermion spectral-density function across the (two-dimensional) Brillouin zone for the Hubbard model and away from the half-filling. Those moments are used to evaluate the nodal quasiparticle velocities and their spectral weights in the correlated superconducting state. The two velocities determined in that manner exhibit scaling with the electron concentration qualitatively different from that obtained earlier for the excited states of the high-$T_c$ cuprates within the projected quasi-particle ansatz, and the results are in a very good quantitative agreement with experimental data if interpreted as those characterizing the spectrum below and above the observed kink. We provide a detailed discussion of the two gaps and two excitation branches (two velocities) appearing naturally within our DE-GWF approach. The two separate sets of characteristics distinguish the renormalized quasiparticle states very close to the Fermi surface from the deeper correlated-state properties. Also, an enhancement of the $\mathbf{k}$-dependent magnetic susceptibility is shown to contain a spin-fluctuation contribution within our language.

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