Superconductivity in Ce-based cage compounds
arXiv:2301.04580 · doi:10.1088/1361-648X/acd15c
Abstract
Cerium-based ternary compounds CeNiCd and CePdCd do not exhibit long-range order down to millikelvin temperature range. Given the large separation between cerium ions which significantly reduces the superexchange interactions and vanishingly small RKKY interaction, here we show that nodal superconductivity mediated by the valence fluctuations must be a ground state in these materials. We propose that the critical temperature for the superconducting transition can be significantly increased by applying hydrostatic pressure. We employ an extended periodic Anderson lattice model which includes the long-range Coulomb interactions between the itinerant electrons as well as the local Coulomb interaction between the predominantly localized and itinerant electrons to compute a critical temperature of the superconducting transition. Using the slave-boson approach we show that fluctuations mediated by the repulsive electron-electron interactions lead to the emergence of d-wave superconductivity.
arXiv comment9 pages, 4 figures
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