S. V. Doronkina | Searcharxiv

arXiv2024

Free energy of a two-liquid system of charge carriers in strongly coupled electron and phonon fields and common nature of three phases in hole-doped cuprates

Hole-doped cuprates demonstrate partially coexisting pseudogap, charge density wave (CDW) and superconducting phases. Recently their common nature was supposed due to similar doping dependence of their critical temperatures. In the CDW phase, a large frozen deformation of strongly ionic lattice is observed. Like for a single carrier in a highly polarizable lattice, for multiple carriers in it the choice between delocalized states of all the carriers and autolocalized states of some part of them is determined by minimum of free energy of interacting carrier and phonon fields. Applying variational approach, we calculate free energy of a two-liquid system of carriers with cuprates-like dispersion comprising liquid of autolocalized carriers (large polarons and bipolarons) and Fermi liquid of delocalized carriers. Comparing it with the free energy of pure Fermi liquid and calculating (with standard methods of Bose-liquid theory) a temperature of superfluid transition in the large-bipolaron liquid we identify areas with presence of pseudogap (caused by impact of (bi)polaron potential on delocalized quasiparticles), CDW and superconductivity in a phase diagram. They are in the same places as in hole-doped cuprates, and similarly to cuprates the shape of the calculated phase diagram is stable with respect to wide-range change of the system characteristics. Like in cuprates, the calculated temperature of the superconducting transition increases with the number of conducting planes in the unit cell, the calculated superfluid density decreases with doping at overdoping, and the bipolaron density (together with bipolaronic plasmon energy) saturates at optimal doping. The results obtained allow us to discuss ways of increasing the temperature of the superfluid transition in large-bipolaron liquid and open a possibility of studying the current-carrying state and properties of bipolaron condensate.

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arXiv2021

Topological pseudogap in highly polarizable layered systems with 2D hole-like dispersion

Pseudogap in hole-doped cuprate superconductors is acknowledged as a possible key to understanding their ground normal state, however, existing pseudogap models have essential inconsistencies with experiments. In our approach pseudogap emerges due to impact of autolocalized carriers on stationary states of delocalized ones and topology of the 2D hole-like dispersion. Autolocalized carriers create potential which transforms Bloch quasiparticles into distributed wave packets (DWPs) with different momentums in areas with different potential. Topology of hole-like constant energy curves in 2D-conducting cuprates forbids DWPs with average momentums near antinode. Manifestation of permitted DWPs in ARPES spectra demonstrates all known pseudogap features including midpoint shift, giant broadening and Fermi momentum misalignment. Calculated doping dependence of the pseudogap width and onset temperature agrees with experiments. The obtained ground normal state of the hole-doped cuprates, in which all the doped holes are autolocalized until high doping is reached and near-antinodal electron DWPs are absent, explains Fermi surface reconstruction from small electron pocket to large hole-like Fermi surface observed in quantum oscillation measurements. Our results open a possibility of creating systems with artificial pseudogap and switchable density of states on the base of highly polarizable layered structures with 2D conductivity and hole-like dispersion.

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