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In view of the many quantum field theoretical descriptions of graphene in $2+1$ dimensions, we present another field theoretical feature of graphene, in the presence of defects. Particularly, we shall be interested in gapped graphene in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 V. K. Oikonomou

Recent experiments revealed non-Fermi-liquid resistivity in the unconventional superconductor Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ when strain pushes one of the Fermi surfaces close to a van Hove singularity. The origin of this behavior and whether it can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-22 František Herman , Jonathan Buhmann , Mark H Fischer , Manfred Sigrist

We present a theory of superconducting pairing originating from soft critical fluctuations near isospin-polarized states in rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Using a symmetry-based approach, we determine possible isospin order types and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-10 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

Amperean superconductivity is an exotic phenomenon stemming from attractive effective electron-electron interactions (EEEIs) mediated by a transverse gauge field. Originally introduced in the context of quantum spin liquids and high-Tc…

Conventional superconductivity follows Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer(BCS) theory of electrons-pairing in momentum-space, while superfluidity is the Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC) of atoms paired in real-space. These properties of solid metals…

We propose a way of making graphene superconductive by putting on it small superconductive islands which cover a tiny fraction of graphene area. We show that the critical temperature, T_c, can reach several Kelvins at the experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 M. V. Feigel'man , M. A. Skvortsov , K. S. Tikhonov

Superconductivity has been previously observed in magic-angle twisted stacks of monolayer graphene but conspicuously not in twisted stacks of bilayer graphene, although both systems host topological flat bands and symmetry-broken states.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-13 Ruiheng Su , Manabendra Kuiri , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Joshua Folk

At a temperature of roughly 1\,K, \ce{Sr2RuO4} undergoes a transition from a normal Fermi liquid to a superconducting phase. Even while the former is relatively simple and well understood, the superconducting state is not even after 25…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-21 Swagata Acharya , Dimitar Pashov , Elena Chachkarova , Mark Van Schilfgaarde , Cédric Weber

Kagome materials offer a versatile platform for exploring correlated and topological quantum states, where van Hove singularities (VHSs) play a pivotal role in driving electronic instabilities, exhibiting distinct behaviors depending on…

We study the superconducting correlations induced in graphene when it is placed between two superconductors, focusing in particular on the supercurrents supported by the 2D system. For this purpose we make use of a formalism placing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Gonzalez , E. Perfetto

The superior intrinsic properties of graphene have been a key research focus for the past few years. However, external components, such as metallic contacts, serve not only as essential probing elements, but also give rise to an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yanqing Wu , Vasili Perebeinos , Yu-ming Lin , Tony Low , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

Superconducting characteristics such as the Meissner-Ochsenfeld state, screening supercurrents and hysteresis loops of type-II superconductors were observed from the temperature and magnetic field dependences of the magnetic moment, m(T,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Moehlecke , Pei-Chun Ho , M. B. Maple

Motivated by recent experimental observations of correlated metallic phases and superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene (RTG), we perform an unbiased study of electronic ordering instabilities in hole-doped RTG. Specifically, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-08 Da-Chuan Lu , Taige Wang , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Yi-Zhuang You

Idealized graphene monolayer is considered neglecting the van der Waals potential of the substrate and the role of the nonmagnetic impurities. The effect of the long-range Coulomb repulsion in an ensemble of Dirac fermions on the formation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Yu. Kagan , V. V. Val'kov , V. A. Mitskan , M. M. Korovushkin

In the unconventional superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, uniaxial stress along the $[100]$ direction tunes the Fermi level through a Van Hove singularity (VHS) in the density of states, causing a strong enhancement of the superconducting…

The recent discovery of the AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A=K, Rb, Cs) kagome superconductors launched a growing field of research investigating electronic instabilities in kagome metals. Specifically, the AV$_3$Sb$_5$ family naturally exhibits a Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-14 Stephen D. Wilson , Brenden R. Ortiz

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, composed of single atomic layers, have attracted vast research interest since the breakthrough discovery of graphene. One major benefit of such systems is the simple ability to tune the chemical potential by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-01 Gopi Nath Daptary , Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

We suggest that the high-temperature superconductivity is attributed to the director-roles of van Hove singularity between electron-electron interaction and electron-phonon interaction. Difference between the critical temperature and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-08 Tian De Cao

A study of possible superconducting phases of graphene has been constructed in detail. A realistic tight binding model, fit to ab initio calculations, accounts for the Li-decoration of graphene with broken lattice symmetry, and includes $s$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-20 Rouhollah Gholami , Rostam Moradian , Sina Moradian , Warren E. Pickett

Ever since BCS theory was first formulated it was recognized that a large electronic density of states at the Fermi level was beneficial to enhancing $T_c$. The A15 compounds and the high temperature cuprate materials both have had an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Thiago X. R. Souza , F. Marsiglio