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Superconducting instability in an exactly solvable model of a doped Mott insulator

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Abstract

Regarding the cuprate superconductors as doped Mott insulators, we solve a toy model that exhibits both Mottness and superconductivity. We show that the Hatsugai-Kohmoto model, an exactly solvable model exhibiting a non-trivial Mott insulator-to-non-Fermi liquid metal transition, exhibits a superconducting instability. The instability is present in the non-Fermi liquid metal phase at half-filling, persists for a wide range of dopings away from half-filling, and terminates once the Mott parameter exceeds a critical strength.

Presenters

  • Luke Yeo

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Authors

  • Philip Phillips

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Luke Yeo

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Edwin Huang

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory