Superlight pairs in face-centred-cubic extended Hubbard models with strong Coulomb repulsion
G D Adebanjo1, P E Kornilovitch2, J P Hague1
1School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
The majority of fulleride superconductors with unusually high transition-temperature to kinetic-energy ratios have a face-centred-cubic (FCC) structure. We demonstrate that, within extended Hubbard models with strong Coulomb repulsion, paired fermions in FCC lattices have qualitatively different properties than pairs in other three-dimensional cubic lattices. Our results show that strongly bound, light, and small pairs can be generated in FCC lattices across a wide range of the parameter space. We estimate that such pairs can Bose condense at high temperatures even if the lattice constant is large (as in the fullerides).
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