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Phys. Rev. B 47, 2948–2951 (1993)

Anisotropic pairing on a three-band Fermi surface for A3C60

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E. J. Mele and S. C. Erwin
Department of Physics and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Received 2 November 1992; published in the issue dated 1 February 1993

We study a model for anisotropic singlet pairing in A3C60, using a realistic model for the Fermi surface in a hypothesized orientationally ordered doped crystal. Anisotropic solutions are studied by combining numerical solutions to the gap equation in the low-temperature phase with a Landau expansion near the mean-field critical temperature. We focus on a class of three-dimensional nodeless d-wave solutions to the model, which exhibit a fully developed gap everywhere on the Fermi surface, but non-BCS temperature dependence of the order parameter in the condensed state, a relatively large value of the low-temperature gap, 2Δ/kTc, and non-BCS structure in the quasiparticle spectrum near the gap.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.47.2948
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.47.2948
PACS:
74.70.Wz, 74.70.Kn, 71.45.Gm