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Discommensuration-enhanced Superconductivity in the Charge Density Wave Phases of Transition-metal Dichalcogenides by Chen, Chuan; Su, Lei; Neto, A. H. Castro; Pereira, Vitor M. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Discommensuration-enhanced Superconductivity in the Charge Density Wave Phases of Transition-metal Dichalcogenides about?

We introduce a McMillan-Ginzburg-Landau theory to describe the cooperative coexistence of charge-density and superconducting order in two-dimensional crystals. With a free-energy that explicitly accounts for the competition between commensurate and incommensurate ground states, we are able to map the transition between these phases and monitor the development of discommensurations in the near-commensurate regime. Attributing the enhancement of superconducting order to density-wave fluctuations, we propose a coupling scheme that yields a phase diagram in qualitative agreement with experiments in conducting transition metal dichalcogenides. The model predicts the development of non-uniform superconductivity similar to that arising from a pair-density wave, with a spatial texture driven by the underlying charge-density wave fluctuations.

Author

Chen, Chuan; Su, Lei; Neto, A. H. Castro; Pereira, Vitor M.

Published

2018

Language

EN