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Flat bands play an important role in the study of strongly correlated phenomena, such as ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and fractional quantum Hall effect. Here we report direct experimental evidence for the presence of flat bands,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Lei Feng , Xianqing Lin , Lan Meng , Jia-Cai Nie , Jun Ni , Lin He

For the first time, basing both on experimental facts and our theoretical consideration, we show that Fermi systems with flat bands should be tuned with the superconducting state. Experimental measurements on magic-angle twisted bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-16 V. R. Shaginyan , A. Z. Msezane , M. Ya. Amusia , G. S. Japaridze

In a flat band superconductor, the charge carriers' group velocity vF is extremely slow, quenching their kinetic energy. The emergence of superconductivity thus appears paradoxical, as conventional BCS theory implies a vanishing coherence…

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…

Current theories of high-temperature superconductivity in flat-band systems predict a linear dependence of the transition temperature on the attractive interaction, $T_c(U) = c|U|$. However, neither the value of $c$ nor the full nonlinear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-08 I. S. Tupitsyn , B. Currie , B. V. Svistunov , E. Kozik , N. V. Prokof'ev

Experimental evidence of novel phenomena in hydrogenated graphite fibers is found. An indirect excitonic mechanism is likely leading to a SC state below the temperature Tc = 50 K, where the gap is divergent. Analysis of the gap within the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-15 Nadina Gheorghiu , Charles R. Ebbing , Timothy J. Haugan

Over the past ten years, flat band (FB) or geometric superconductivity has become a major issue in condensed matter physics due to the significant technological benefits it could offer. Observations of this unconventional form of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-11 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

The basic features of multi-band superconductivity and its implications are derived. In particular, it is shown that enhancements of the superconducting transition temperature take place due to interband interactions. In addition, isotope…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-03 Annette Bussmann-Holder , Hugo Keller , Arndt Simon , Antonio Bianconi

The geometric properties of a lattice can have profound consequences on its band spectrum. For example, symmetry constraints and geometric frustration can give rise to topologicially nontrivial and dispersionless bands, respectively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Christie S. Chiu , Da-Shuai Ma , Zhi-Da Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Andrew A. Houck

Some materials can have the dispersionless parts in their electronic spectra. These parts are usually called flat bands and generate the corps of unusual physical properties of such materials. These flat bands are induced by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-22 V. R. Shaginyan , A. Z. Msezane , V. A. Stephanovich , G. S. Japaridze , E. V. Kirichenko

In this letter we consider $D$-dimensional interacting Fermi liquids, and demonstrate that an attractive interaction with a finite range $R_s$ that is much greater than the Fermi wavelength $\lambda_F$ breaks the conventional BCS theory of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-18 Dmitry Miserev , Joel Hutchinson , Herbert Schoeller , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We examine possibility of enhancement of superconductive critical temperature in two-dimensions. The weak coupling BCS theory is applied, especially when the Fermi level is near the edges of the electronic bands. The attractive interaction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Mahito Kohmoto , Iksoo Chang , Jacques Friedel

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…

A general theory of superconductivity based on the pairing of electrons that belong to different electronic bands is presented. These electronic bands arise because of a symmetry breaking at the critical temperature in such a way that one…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Riera , J. L. Marin , R. Betancourt-Riera

Condensed matter systems with flat bands close to the Fermi level generally exhibit, due to their very large density of states, extraordinary high critical ordering temperatures of symmetry breaking orders, such as superconductivity and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-22 Tomas Löthman , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Recent experiments on certain Fe-based superconductors have hinted at a role for paired electrons in "incipient" bands that are close to, but do not cross the Fermi level. Related theoretical works disagree on whether or not strong-coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-18 Xiao Chen , S. Maiti , A. Linscheid , P. J. Hirschfeld

Three band crossings can arise in three dimensional quantum materials with certain space group symmetries. The low energy Hamiltonian supports spin $\textit{one}$ fermions and a flat band. We study the pairing problem in this setting. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-02 Yu-Ping Lin , Rahul M. Nandkishore

Topological media are systems whose properties are protected by topology and thus are robust to deformations of the system. In topological insulators and superconductors the bulk-surface and bulk-vortex correspondence gives rise to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-28 G. E. Volovik

We investigate superconductivity in a two-dimensional material described by a two-band heavy-fermion model, where hybridization between a dispersive band and a flat band introduces a quasi-flat dispersion to the otherwise localized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-25 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

We analyze the properties of flat-band superconductor junctions that behave differently from ordinary junctions containing only metals with Fermi surfaces. In particular, we show how in the tunneling limit the critical Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 P. Virtanen , R. P. S. Penttilä , P. Törmä , A. Díez-Carlón , D. K. Efetov , T. T. Heikkilä