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Comment on paper: Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry, Nature 614, 440 (2023)

Superconductivity 2025-12-05 v5 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We demonstrate that an absolutely flat band retains the superconducting state at Tc0T_c\to 0. When Tc>0T_c>0 the flat band disappears, since it must be modified by the superconducting state. Thus, a number of the results on ultra-strong coupling superconductivity in flat band considered in the article ("Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry", Nature 614, 440 (2023)) were predicted and explained many years ago. One has to take into account that at Tc>0T_c>0 the flat band distorts, becoming tilted. As a result, the charge carriers' velocity vFTcv_F\propto T_c becomes finite, rather than being extremely slow, as it is stated in the article. Thus, the statement "the charge carriers' group velocity vFv_ F is extremely slow" is incorrect and leads the authors to the conceptional misunderstanding, confusing the reader.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06054,
  title  = {Comment on paper: Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry, Nature 614, 440 (2023)},
  author = {V. R. Shaginyan and A. Z. Msezane and G. S. Japaridze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06054},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

1 page, Reference corrected. Comment on arXiv:2112.13401