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The interplay between disorder and superconductivity has intrigued physicists for decades. Of particular interest is the influence of disorder on the superconducting energy gap $\Delta$. In the absence of Coulomb interactions between…

The four-site DCA method of including intersite correlations in the dynamical mean field theory is used to investigate the metal-insulator transition in the Hubbard model. At half filling a gap-opening transition is found to occur as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-11 Emanuel Gull , Philipp Werner , Xin Wang , Matthias Troyer , A. J. Millis

We investigate the effects of disorder on a layered superconductor. The clean system is known to have a first order phase transition which is clearly identified by a sharp peak in the specific heat. The peak is lost abruptly as the strength…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 N. K. Wilkin , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

The effect of disorder on the superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ of cuprate superconductors is examined. Disorder is introduced into the cation sites in the plane adjacent to the CuO$_{2}$ planes of two single-layer systems,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Fujita , T. Noda , K. M. Kojima , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida

The effect of nonmagnetic disorder on the pairing amplitude is studied by means of a perturbation method. Using an extended one band Hubbard model with an intersite attraction we analyze various solutions of p-wave pairing symmetry and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Litak

Several experimental studies have shown the presence of spatially inhomogeneous phase coexistence of superconducting and non superconducting domains in low dimensional organic superconductors. The superconducting properties of these systems…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Sonia Haddad , Samia Charfi-Kaddour , Jean-Paul Pouget

In this letter we study the Haldane model with on-site repulsive interactions at half-filling. We show that the mean-field Hamiltonian with magnetic order effectively modifies parameters in the Haldane Hamiltonian, such as sublattice energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-10 Wei Zheng , Huitao Shen , Zhong Wang , Hui Zhai

In many classes of unconventional superconductors, the question of whether the superconductivity is enhanced by the quantum-critical fluctuations on the verge of an ordered phase remains elusive. One of the most direct ways of addressing…

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) -- the nonreciprocity of the critical current in a bulk superconductor -- has garnered significant attention due to its potential applications in superconducting electronics. However, the role of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-13 Jaglul Hasan , Daniel Shaffer , Maxim Khodas , Alex Levchenko

Effect of disorder in metallic thin film is examined as a possible mechanism of the Superconductor-Insulator (S-I) transition. The critical value of disorder corresponding to the transition point is found analytically by using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Masahiko Kasuga , Susumu Kurihara

We analyze the complex interplay of the strong correlations and impurities in a high temperature superconductor and show that both the nature and degree of the inhomogeneities at zero temperature in the local order parameters change…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Debmalya Chakraborty , Amit Ghosal

Disorder can profoundly affect the transport properties of a wide range of quantum materials. Presently, there is significant disagreement regarding the effect of disorder on transport in the disordered Bose-Hubbard (DBH) model, which is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Pasienski , D. McKay , M. White , B. DeMarco

Superconductor-insulator transition driven by the decreasing concentration of electrons $n$ is studied in the case of the disorder potential created by randomly positioned charged impurities. Electrons and Cooper pairs (formed by an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 B. I. Shklovskii

We study two mechanisms for enhancing the superconducting transition temperature Tc by nonmagnetic disorder in both conventional (sign-preserving gaps) and unconventional (sign-changing gaps) superconductors (SC). In the first scenario,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-27 Maria N. Gastiasoro , Brian M. Andersen

Earlier work [arXiv:1206.2407,arXiv:2206.06085] have shown the band insulator (BI) to superfluid (SF) phase transition in the half-filled bilayer attractive Hubbard model. In this paper we append the effects of random on-site disorder on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-12 Yogeshwar Prasad , Hunpyo Lee

We study the phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties of a system of coexisting itinerant electrons and local pairs (LP), in the presence of diagonal disorder. The model considered takes into account both the charge exchange couplings,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanisław Robaszkiewicz , Grzegorz Pawłowski

In most iron-based superconductors, the transition to the magnetically ordered state is closely linked to a lowering of structural symmetry from tetragonal ($C_{4}$) to orthorhombic ($C_{2}$). However, recently, a regime of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-27 Mareike Hoyer , Rafael M. Fernandes , Alex Levchenko , Jörg Schmalian

The d-wave superconductivity (dSC) and antiferromagnetism are analytically studied in a renormalized mean field theory for a two dimensional t-J model plus an on-site repulsive Hubbard interaction $U$. The purpose of introducing the $U$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Feng Yuan , Qingshan Yuan , C. S. Ting , T. K. Lee

The density of states of the organic superconductor $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$Cu[N(CN)$_2$]Br, measured by scanning tunneling spectroscopy on \textit{in-situ} cleaved surfaces, reveals a logarithmic suppression near the Fermi edge persisting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-21 Sandra Diehl , Torsten Methfessel , Jens Müller , Michael Lang , Michael Huth , Martin Jourdan , Hans-Joachim Elmers

We analyze the effect of weak disorder on the competition between antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in a model for iron-based superconductors. Under the assumption of an approximate particle-hole symmetry we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-10 Mareike Hoyer , Sergey V. Syzranov , Jörg Schmalian