Menke Henri, Klett Marcel, Kanoda Kazushi, Georges Antoine, Ferrero Michel, Schäfer Thomas
<a href="https://ror.org/005bk2339">Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung</a>, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Department of Physics, <a href="https://ror.org/00f7hpc57">Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg</a>, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2024 Sep 27;133(13):136501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.136501.
The phase diagrams of quasi two-dimensional organic superconductors display a plethora of fundamental phenomena associated with strong electron correlations, such as unconventional superconductivity, metal-insulator transitions, frustrated magnetism and spin liquid behavior. We analyze a minimal model for these compounds, the Hubbard model on an anisotropic triangular lattice, using cutting-edge quantum embedding methods respecting the lattice symmetry. We demonstrate the existence of unconventional superconductivity by directly entering the symmetry-broken phase. We show that the crossover from the Fermi liquid metal to the Mott insulator is associated with the formation of a pseudogap. The predicted momentum-selective destruction of the Fermi surface into hot and cold regions provides motivation for further spectroscopic studies. Our theoretical results agree with experimental phase diagrams of κ-BEDT organics.