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Materials tuned to the neighbourhood of a zero temperature phase transition often show the emergence of novel quantum phenomena. Much of the effort to study these new effects, like the breakdown of the conventional Fermi-liquid theory of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-06 S. E. Rowley , L. J. Spalek , R. P. Smith , M. P. M. Dean , G. G. Lonzarich , J. F. Scott , S. S. Saxena

We study the quantum criticality of the phase transition between the Dirac semimetal and the excitonic insulator in two dimensions. Even though the system has a semimetallic ground state, there are observable effects of excitonic pairing at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Xiao-Yin Pan , Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu

We present a strong coupling dynamical theory of the superconducting transition in a metal near a QCP towards $Q = 0$ nematic order. We use a fermion-boson model, in which we treat the ratio of effective boson-fermion coupling and the Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-22 Avraham Klein , Andrey Chubukov

In most of charge density wave (CDW) systems of different material classes, ranging from traditional correlated systems in low-dimension to recent topological systems with Kagome lattice, superconductivity emerges when the system is driven…

We present a detailed description of two-band quasi-2D metals with s-wave superconducting (SC) and antiferromagnetic spin-density wave (SDW) correlations. We present a general approach and use it to investigate the influence of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-06-04 A. B. Vorontsov , M. G. Vavilov , A. V. Chubukov

Quasi-two dimensional itinerant fermions in the Anti-Ferro-Magnetic (AFM) quantum-critical region of their phase diagram, such as in the Fe-based superconductors or in some of the heavy-fermion compounds, exhibit a resistivity varying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-10 C. M. Varma

The quantum phase transitions of metals have been extensively studied in the rare-earth "heavy electron" materials, the cuprates, and related compounds. The Fermi surface of the metal often has different shapes in the states well away from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ribhu K. Kaul , Alexei Kolezhuk , Michael Levin , Subir Sachdev , T. Senthil

Transport measurements on the cuprates suggest the presence of a quantum critical point hiding underneath the superconducting dome near optimal hole doping. We provide numerical evidence in support of this scenario via a dynamical cluster…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Galanakis , E. Khatami , K. Mikelsons , A. Macridin , J. Moreno , D. A. Browne , M. Jarrell

An interaction between electrons and lattice vibrations (phonons) results in two fundamental quantum phenomena in solids: in three dimensions it can turn a metal into a superconductor whereas in one dimension it can turn a metal into an…

One of the greatest challenges to Landau's Fermi liquid theory - the standard theory of metals - is presented by complex materials with strong electronic correlations. In these materials, non-Fermi liquid transport and thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-17 T. Hu , Y. P. Singh , L. Shu , M. Janoschek , M. Dzero , M. B. Maple , Carmen C. Almasan

A variety of compounds, for example doped paraelectrics and polar metals, exhibit both ferroelectricity and correlated electronic phenomena such as low-density superconductivity and anomalous transport. Characterizing such properties is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-19 Avraham Klein , Vladyslav Kozii , Jonathan Ruhman , Rafael M. Fernandes

We study superconductivity in a Weyl semimetal with a tilted dispersion around two Weyl points of opposite chirality. In the absence of any tilt, the state with zero momentum pairing between two Fermi sheets enclosing each Weyl point has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Alidoust , K. Halterman , A. A. Zyuzin

This paper is a continuation and a partial summary of our analysis of the pairing at a quantum-critical point (QCP) in a metal for a set of quantum-critical systems, whose low-energy physics is described by an effective model with dynamical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-03 Yi-Ming Wu , Shang-Shun Zhang , Artem Abanov , Andrey V. Chubukov

The identification of magnetic quantum critical points in heavy fermion metals has provided an ideal setting for experimentally studying quantum criticality. Motivated by these experiments, considerable theoretical efforts have recently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Qimiao Si , Jian-Xin Zhu , D. R. Grempel

The effect of ordering field phase fluctuations on the normal and superconducting properties of a simple 2D model with a local four-fermion attraction is studied. Neglecting the coupling between the spin and charge degrees of freedom an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 V. P. Gusynin , V. M. Loktev , R. M. Quick , S. G. Sharapov

When a 2D superconductor is subjected to a strong in-plane magnetic field, Zeeman polarization of the Fermi surface can give rise to inhomogeneous FFLO order with a spatially modulated gap. Further increase of the magnetic field eventually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 Dimitri Pimenov , Ipsita Mandal , Francesco Piazza , Matthias Punk

We study the temperature dependence of the conductivity due to quantum interference processes for a two-dimensional disordered itinerant electron system close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Near the quantum critical point, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Paul , C. Pépin , B. N. Narozhny , D. L. Maslov

A quantum critical point (QCP) occurs upon chemical doping of the weak itinerant ferromagnet Sc_{3.1}In. Remarkable for a system with no local moments, the QCP is accompanied by non-Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior, manifested in the logarithmic…

We investigate the issues of competing orders and quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors via experimental studies of the high-field thermodynamic phase diagrams and the quasiparticle tunneling spectroscopy. Our results suggest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. -C. Yeh , C. -T. Chen , V. S. Zapf , A. D. Beyer , C. R. Hughes , M. -S. Park , K. -H. Kim , S. -I. Lee

We compare the position of an ordering transition in a metal to that in a superconductor. For the spin density wave (SDW) transition, we find that the quantum critical point shifts by order |Delta|, where Delta is pairing amplitude, so that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-09-22 Eun Gook Moon , Subir Sachdev