Synergy between Hund-Driven Correlations and Boson-Mediated Superconductivity

Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Oct 23;125(17):177001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.177001.

Abstract

Multiorbital systems such as the iron-based superconductors provide a new avenue to attack the long-standing problem of superconductivity in strongly correlated systems. In this work we study the superconductivity driven by a generic bosonic mechanism in a multiorbital model including the full dynamical electronic correlations induced by the Hubbard U and the Hund's coupling. We show that superconductivity survives much more in a Hund's metal than in an ordinary correlated metal with the same degree of correlation. The redistribution of spectral weight characteristic of the Hund's metal reflects also in the enhancement of the orbital-selective character of the superconducting gaps, in agreement with experiments in iron-based superconductors.