A. Sedeki

Superconductivity in armchair carbon nanotubes

We use the momentum space renormalization group to study the influence of phonons and the Coulomb interaction on the superconducting response function of armchair single-walled nanotubes. We do not find superconductivity in undoped single nanotubes. When doped, superconducting fluctuations can develop because of the phonons but remain small and are easily destroyed by the Coulomb interaction. The origin of superconductivity in ropes of nanotobes is most likely an intertube effect. Projections to zigzag nanotubes indicate a more favorable disposition to superconducting fluctuations.

Extended quantum criticality of low-dimensional superconductors near a spin-density-wave instability

We use the renormalization group method to study the normal state of quasi-one-dimensional superconductors nearby a spin-density-wave instability. On the basis of one-loop scattering amplitudes for the quasi-one-dimensional electron gas, the integration of the renormalization group equations for the two-loop single particle Matsubara self-energy leads to a nonFermi-liquid temperature downturn of the momentum-resolved quasi-particle weight over most part of the Fermi surface. The amplitude of the downturn correlates with the entire instability line for superconductivity, defining an extended quantum critical region of the phase diagram as a function of nesting deviations of the Fermi surface. One also extracts the downward renormalization of interchain hopping amplitudes at arbitrary low temperature in the normal phase. By means of analytical continuation of the Matsubara self-energy, one-particle spectral functions are obtained with respect to both energy and temperature and their anomalous features analyzed in connection with the sequence of instability lines of the phase diagram. The quasi-particle scattering rate is found to develop an unusual temperature dependence, which is best described by the superimposition of a linear and quadratic

The metallic transport of (TMTSF)2X organic conductors close to the superconducting phase

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Superconducting and density-wave instabilities of low-dimensional conductors with a Zeeman coupling to a magnetic field

dependences. The nonFermi-liquid linear-

Electron-phonon coupling and Peierls transition in metallic carbon nanotubes

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Correlation between linear resistivity and Tc in organic and pnictide superconductors

component correlates with the temperature scale

Linear-T scattering and pairing from antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the (TMTSF)2X organic superconductors

T_c

Interfering antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors

of the superconducting instability over an extended range of nesting deviations, whereas its anisotropy along the Fermi surface is predicted to parallel the momentum profile of a d-wave pairing gap on the Fermi surface. We examine the implications of our results for low dimensional unconventional superconductors, in particular the Bechgaard salts series of quasi-1D organic conductors, but also the pnictide and cuprate superconductors where several common features are observed.

Influence of carrier lifetime on quantum criticality and superconducting Tc of (TMTSF)2ClO4

Comparing resistivity data of the quasi-one-dimensional superconductors (TMTSF)2PF6 and (TMTSF)2ClO4 along the least conducting c(⋆)-axis and along the high conductivity a-axis as a function of temperature and pressure, a low temperature regime is observed in which a unique scattering time governs the transport along both directions of these anisotropic conductors. However, the pressure dependence of the anisotropy implies a large pressure dependence of the interlayer coupling. This is in agreement with the results of first-principles density functional theory calculations implying methyl group hyperconjugation in the TMTSF molecule. In this low temperature regime, both materials exhibit for ρ(c) a temperature dependence aT + bT(2). Taking into account the strong pressure dependence of the anisotropy, the T-linear ρ(c) is found to correlate with the suppression of the superconducting Tc, in close analogy with ρ(a) data. This work reveals the domain of existence of the three-dimensional coherent regime in the generic (TMTSF)2X phase diagram and provides further support for the correlation between T-linear resistivity and superconductivity in non-conventional superconductors.

Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate as a link between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in organic conductors

In the framework of the weak coupling renormalization group technique we examine the possible instabilities of the extended quasi-one-dimensional electron gas model with both intrachain and interchain electron-electron interactions, including the influence of umklapp scattering and the coupling of spins to a magnetic field. In the limit of purely repulsive intrachain interactions, we confirm the passage from singlet d-wave like superconductivity to an inhomogeneous FFLO state under magnetic field. The passage is accompanied by an anomalous increase of the upper critical field that scales with the antinesting distance from the quantum critical point joining superconductivity to antiferromagnetism in the phase diagram, as well as the strength of interactions. Adding weak repulsive interchain interactions promotes the passage from singlet to triplet