# "Unconventional pairing symmetry of interacting Dirac fermions on a π -flux lattice"

Huaiming Guo: Ehsan Khatami, Yao Wang, Thomas P. Devereaux, Rajiv R. P. Singh, and Richard T. Scalettar; Physical Review B, 04/20/2018.

Additional Authors: Ehsan Khatami, Yao Wang, Thomas P. Devereaux, Rajiv R. P. Singh, and Richard T. Scalettar

Abstract:

The pairing symmetry of interacting Dirac fermions on the π-flux lattice is studied with the determinant quantum Monte Carlo and numerical linked-cluster expansion methods. The s– (i.e., extended s-) and d-wave pairing symmetries, which are distinct in the conventional square lattice, are degenerate under the Landau gauge. We demonstrate that the dominant pairing channel at strong interactions is an unconventional ds-wave phase consisting of alternating stripes of s– and d-wave phases. A complementary mean-field analysis shows that while the s– and d-wave symmetries individually have nodes in the energy spectrum, the ds channel is fully gapped. The results represent a new realization of pairing in Dirac systems, connected to the problem of chiral d-wave pairing on the honeycomb lattice, which might be more readily accessed by cold-atom experiments.