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Phys. Rev. B 57, 8549–8559 (1998)

Microscopic derivation of the SO(5) symmetric Landau-Ginzburg potential

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C. P. Burgess and J. M. Cline
Physics Department, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3A 2T8

R. MacKenzie and R. Ray
Laboratoire René-J.-A.-Lévesque, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3C 3J7

Received 30 July 1997; revised 1 October 1997; published in the issue dated 1 April 1998

We construct a microscopic model of electron interactions that gives rise to both superconductivity and antiferromagnetism, and which admits an approximate SO(5) symmetry that relates these two phases. The symmetry can be exact, or it may exist only in the long-wavelength limit, depending on the detailed form of the interactions. We compute the macroscopic Landau-Ginzburg free energy for this model as a function of temperature and doping, by explicitly integrating out the fermions. We find that the resulting phase diagram can resemble that observed for the cuprates, with the antiferromagnetism realized as a spin-density wave, whose wavelength might be incommensurate with the lattice spacing away from half filling.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.57.8549
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.57.8549
PACS:
74.25.Dw, 71.10.-w, 74.20.De, 74.25.Ha