Suppression of fluctuations in a two-band superconductor with a quasi-one-dimensional band
A. A. Shanenko, Tiago Saraiva, A. Vagov, Andrey S. Vasenko, Andrea Perali
Abstract
Chainlike structured superconductive materials (such as ${A}_{2}{\mathrm{Cr}}_{3}{\mathrm{As}}_{3}$, with $A=\mathrm{K},\mathrm{Rb},\mathrm{Cs}$) exhibit the multiband electronic structure of single-particle states, where coexisting quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) and conventional higher-dimensional energy bands take part in the creation of the aggregate superconducting condensate. When the chemical potential approaches the edge of a Q1D band in a single-band superconductor, the corresponding mean-field critical temperature increases significantly but the superconductivity is quenched by fluctuations. However, recent investigation has revealed that when a Q1D band is coupled to a higher-dimensional one by the interband Cooper-pair transfer, the thermal superconductive fluctuations can be suppressed so that the resulting critical temperature can be close to its mean-field value. In the present work, we calculate the mean-field ${T}_{c0}$ and fluctuation-shifted ${T}_{c}$ critical temperatures for a two-band superconductor where a Q1D band coexists with a higher-dimensional band, and investigate how the thermal fluctuations are sensitive to the system parameters. We find that ${T}_{c}$ is close to ${T}_{c0}$ in a wide range of microscopic parameters, and even the dimensionality of the higher-dimensional band does not play an essential role. Thus, the screening mechanism for suppressing fluctuations via the pair-exchange coupling between the bands is indeed relevant for a large class of Q1D multiband superconducting materials, encouraging further experiments aimed at reaching larger critical temperatures in such multiband superconductors.