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Volume 111, Number 4, August 2015
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Article Number | 47003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/111/47003 | |
Published online | 02 September 2015 |
Triplet p + ip pairing correlations in the doped Kane-Mele-Hubbard model: A quantum Monte Carlo study
1 Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University - Beijing 100875, China
2 Beijing Computational Science Research Center - Beijing 100094, China
3 Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
Received: 9 June 2015
Accepted: 3 August 2015
By using the constrained-phase quantum Monte Carlo method, we performed a systematic study of the pairing correlations in the ground state of the doped Kane-Mele-Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice. We find that pairing correlations with d + id symmetry dominate close to half-filling, but pairing correlations with p + ip symmetry dominate as hole doping moves the system below three-quarters filling. We correlate these behaviors of the pairing correlations with the topology of the Fermi surfaces of the non-interacting problem. We also find that the effective pairing correlation is enhanced greatly as the interaction increases, and these superconducting correlations are robust against varying the spin-orbit coupling strength. Our numerical results suggest a possible way to realize spin triplet superconductivity in doped honeycomb-like materials or ultracold atoms in optical traps.
PACS: 71.10.Fd – Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model, etc.) / 74.20.Mn – Nonconventional mechanisms / 74.20.Rp – Pairing symmetries (other than s-wave)
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