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Interaction and disorder effects on Cooper instability in two-dimensional fractional Dirac semimetals

Superconductivity 2026-02-27 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Employing a renormalization group analysis that allows for an unbiased treatment of competing physical ingredients, we systematically trace how the interplay between Cooper pairing and disorder scatterings governs the emergence or suppression of Cooper instability in the low-energy regime of fractional Dirac semimetals.In the clean limit, we find that the emergence of Cooper instability requires surpassing a finite interaction threshold λc|\lambda_c|, and depends sensitively on both the fractional exponent α\alpha and the transfer momentum Q=(Q,ϕ)\mathbf{Q}=(Q,\phi). Specifically, bigger values of α\alpha enhance the tendency toward BCS instability. For α(0.001,0.61)\alpha\in(0.001,0.61), the (Q,ϕ)(Q,\phi) parameter space separates into two distinct regions: Zone-\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral1}, where Cooper instability is suppressed, and Zone-\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2}, where it is allowed. In the presence of disorders, we demonstrate that they can either promote or suppress Cooper instability. Disorder of type Δ1\Delta_1 or Δ2\Delta_2 enhances superconductivity by reducing the critical interaction threshold λc|\lambda_c| and expanding the superconducting phase space (Zone-\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2}). In sharp contrast, either Δ0\Delta_0 or Δ3\Delta_3 suppresses Cooper pairing by increasing λc|\lambda_c| and shrinking the available phase space (Zone-\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral1}). Although Cooper instability can be enhanced when promotive disorders (Δ1\Delta_1, Δ2\Delta_2) coexist with a single suppressive disorder (Δ0\Delta_0 or Δ3\Delta_3), the suppressive influence of Δ0,3\Delta_{0,3} generally dominates the promotive effects of Δ1,2\Delta_{1,2} in the presence of all sorts of disorders. These results would be helpful for further studies of fractional Dirac semimetals and alike materials.

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@article{arxiv.2602.22772,
  title  = {Interaction and disorder effects on Cooper instability in two-dimensional fractional Dirac semimetals},
  author = {Hua Zang and Jing Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22772},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages, 13 figures