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Robustness of bipolaronic superconductivity to electron-density-phonon coupling

Superconductivity 2025-11-11 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study bipolaron formation and bipolaronic superconductivity on a square lattice, where electrons couple to both local Holstein phonons via on-site charge density and nonlocal bond Su-Schrieffer-Heeger phonons via modulation of hopping amplitudes. Using an unbiased Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method, we investigate how the interplay between these two types of electron-phonon coupling affects the bipolaron binding energy, effective mass, spatial extent (quantified by the mean-squared radius), and the superconducting transition temperature TcT_c. We find that, in some parameter space, the moderate Holstein coupling, though detrimental to TcT_c when acting alone, can enhance superconductivity when combined with the bond SSH coupling by further compressing the bipolaron without significantly increasing its mass. Similarly, introducing bond SSH coupling into a Holstein bipolaron reduces its size while keeping the effective mass nearly unchanged, leading a higher TcT_c. These effects give rise to nonmonotonic behavior and reveal a cooperative regime in which both couplings work together to enhance superconductivity. We further examine phonon frequency asymmetry, particularly the case ωH/t=2ωB/t\omega_H/t = 2\omega_B/t, and show that in the deep adiabatic regime, adding Holstein coupling can even raise TcT_c when combined with bond SSH coupling. These results highlight the distinct and complementary roles of local Holstein and non-local bond SSH electron-phonon couplings, and suggest strategies for optimizing high-TcT_c superconductivity in systems with multiple phonon modes.

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@article{arxiv.2511.06350,
  title  = {Robustness of bipolaronic superconductivity to electron-density-phonon coupling},
  author = {Chao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.06350},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages 4 figures