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Register a new userAb Initio Theory of Superconductivity in a Magnetic Field I. : Spin Density Functional Theory For Superconductors and Eliashberg Equations
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We present a first-principles approach to describe magnetic and superconducting systems and the phenomena of competition between these electronic effects. We develop a density functional theory: SpinSCDFT, by extending the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and constructing the non-interacting Kohn- Sham system. An exchange-correlation functional for SpinSCDFT is derived from the Sham Schluter connection between the SpinSCDFT Kohn-Sham and a self-energy in Eliashberg approximation. The reference Eliashberg equations for superconductors in the presence of magnetism are also derived and discussed.
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We extend the two leading methods for the emph{ab initio} computational descrip tion of phonon-mediated superconductors, namely Eliashberg theory and density fu nctional theory for superconductors (SCDFT), to include plasmonic effects. Furth ermore, we introduce a hybrid formalism in which the Eliashberg approximation fo r the electron-phonon coupling is combined with the SCDFT treatment of the dynam ically screened Coulomb interaction. The methods have been tested on a set of we ll-known conventional superconductors by studying how the plasmon contribution a ffects the phononic mechanism in determining the critical temperature (tc). Our simulations show that plasmonic SCDFT leads to a good agreement between predict ed and measured tcs, whereas Eliashberg theory considerably overestimates the plasmon-mediated pairing and, therefore, tc. The hybrid approach, on the other hand, gives results close to SCDFT and overall in excellent agreement with exper iments.
We numerically investigate the Spin Density Functional theory for superconductors (SpinSCDFT) and the approximated exchange-correlation functional, derived and presented in the preceding paper I. As a test system we employ a free electron gas featuring an exchange-splitting, a phononic pairing field and a Coulomb repulsion. SpinSCDFT results are compared with Sarma, the Bardeen Cooper and Schrieffer theory and with an Eliashberg type of approach. We find that the spectrum of the superconducting Kohn-Sham SpinSCDFT system is not in agreement with the true quasi particle structure. Therefore, starting from the Dyson equation, we derive a scheme that allows to compute the many body excitations of the superconductor and represents the extension to superconductivity of the G0W0 method in band structure theory. This superconducting G0 W0 method vastly improves the predicted spectra.
We report the first-principles study of superconducting critical temperature and superconducting properties of Fe-based superconductors taking into account on the same footing phonon, charge and spin-fluctuation mediated Cooper pairing. We show that in FeSe this leads to a modulated s$pm$ gap symmetry, and that the antiferromagnetic paramagnons are the leading mechanism for superconductivity in FeSe, overcoming the strong repulsive effect of both phonons and charge pairing.
Aiming at a unified treatment of correlation and inhomogeneity effects in superconductors, Oliveira, Gross and Kohn proposed in 1988 a density functional theory for the superconducting state. This theory relies on the existence of a Kohn-Sham scheme, i.e., an auxiliary noninteracting system with the same electron and anomalous densities of the original superconducting system. However, the question of noninteracting $v$-representability has never been properly addressed and the existence of the Kohn-Sham system has always been assumed without proof. Here, we show that indeed such a noninteracting system does not exist in at zero temperature. In spite of this result, we also show that the theory is still able to yield good results, although in the limit of weakly correlated systems only.
We present an textit{ab initio} theory for superconductors, based on a unique mapping between the statistical density operator at equilibrium, on the one hand, and the corresponding one-body reduced density matrix $gamma$ and the anomalous density $chi$, on the other. This new formalism for superconductivity yields the existence of a universal functional $mathfrak{F}_beta[gamma,chi]$ for the superconductor ground state, whose unique properties we derive. We then prove the existence of a Kohn-Sham system at finite temperature and derive the corresponding Bogoliubov-de Gennes-like single particle equations. By adapting the decoupling approximation from density functional theory for superconductors we bring these equations into a computationally feasible form. Finally, we use the existence of the Kohn-Sham system to extend the Sham-Schluter connection and derive a first exchange-correlation functional for our theory. This reduced density matrix functional theory for superconductors has the potential of overcoming some of the shortcomings and fundamental limitations of density functional theory of superconductivity.
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