Superconductivity of non-Fermi liquids described by Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models

Abstract

We investigate models of electrons in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev class with random and all-to-all electron hopping, electron spin exchange, and Cooper-pair hopping. An attractive on-site interaction between electrons leads to superconductivity at low temperatures. Depending on the relative strengths of the hopping and spin exchange, the normal state at the critical temperature is either a Fermi-liquid or a non-Fermi liquid. We present a large-$M$ (where spin symmetry is enlarged to SU$(M)$) study of the normal state to superconductor phase transition. We describe the transition temperature, the superconducting order parameter, and the electron spectral functions. We contrast between Fermi liquid and non-Fermi liquid normal states: we find that for weaker attractive on-site interaction there is a relative enhancement of $T_c$ when the normal state is a non-Fermi liquid, and correspondingly a strong deviation from BCS limit. Also, the phase transition in this case becomes a first-order transition for strong non-Fermi liquids. On the other hand, for stronger on-site interaction, there is no appreciable difference in $T_c$ between whether the superconductivity emerges from a Fermi liquid or a non-Fermi liquid. Notable features of superconductivity emerging from a non-Fermi liquid are that the superconducting electron spectral function is different from the Fermi-liquid case, with additional peaks at higher energies, and there is no Hebel-Slichter peak in the NMR relaxation rate in the non-Fermi liquid case.

26 pages, 13 figures; (v2) Added new results, figures, and references, modified abstract, and expanded discussion

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