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We present a study of Nernst and Seebeck coefficients of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_{5}$. Below 18 K, concomitant with a field-dependent Seebeck coefficient, a large sub-linear Nernst signal emerges with a magnitude…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Bel , K. Behnia , Y. Nakajima , K. Izawa , Y. Matsuda , H. Shishido , R. Settai , Y. Onuki

Dimensionality plays an essential role in determining the anomalous non-Fermi liquid properties in heavy fermion systems. So far most heavy fermion compounds are quasi-two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Here we report the synthesis and…

We construct a phenomenological superfluid Fermi liquid theory for a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor on a square lattice, and study the effect of quasiparticle interactions on the superfluid density. Using simple models for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Arun Paramekanti , Mohit Randeria

Using magnetic force microscopy operating at sub-Kelvin temperatures we characterize the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_5$. We pinpoint the absolute London penetration depth $\lambda(0) = 435 \pm 20$ nm and report its temperature…

In the generic phase diagram of heavy fermion systems, tuning an external parameter such as hydrostatic or chemical pressure modifies the superconducting transition temperature. The superconducting phase forms a dome in the…

We report measurements of the pressure-dependent superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ and electrical resistivity of the heavy-fermion compound CeCoIn$_5$. Pressure moves CeCoIn$_5$ away from its proximity to a quantum-critical point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Nicklas , R. Borth , E. Lengyel , P. G. Pagliuso , J. L. Sarrao , V. A. Sidorov , G. Sparn , F. Steglich , J. D. Thompson

We have observed the superfluid phase transition in a strongly interacting Fermi gas via high-precision measurements of the local compressibility, density and pressure down to near-zero entropy. Our data completely determine the universal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-23 Mark J. H. Ku , Ariel T. Sommer , Lawrence W. Cheuk , Martin W. Zwierlein

Although the pairing glue for the attractive quasiparticle interaction responsible for unconventional superconductivity in heavy electron materials has been identified as the spin fluctuations that arise from their proximity to a magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Yi-feng Yang , David Pines

The superfluidity and pairing phenomena in ultracold atomic Fermi gases have been of great interest in recent years, with multiple tunable parameters. Here we study the BCS-BEC crossover behavior of balanced two-component Fermi gases in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-20 Jibiao Wang , Leifeng Zhang , Yi Yu , Chaohong Lee , Qijin Chen

A consistent finite-temperature microscopic theory for the response of strongly coupled superfluid fermionic systems is formulated. We start from the general many-body Hamiltonian with the vacuum (bare) two-fermion interaction and derive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-05 Sumit Bhattacharjee , Elena Litvinova

Among the mysteries surrounding unconventional, strongly correlated superconductors is the possibility of spatial variations in their superfluid density. We use atomic-resolution Josephson scanning tunneling microscopy to reveal a strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-14 D. Cho , K. M. Bastiaans , D. Chatzopoulos , G. D. Gu , M. P. Allan

A model of a strongly correlated electron liquid based on the fermion condensation (FC) is extended to high-temperature superconductors. Within our model, the appearance of FC presents a boundary separating the region of a strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Artamonov , V. R. Shaginyan

The explanation of heavy-fermion superconductivity is a long-standing challenge to theory. It is commonly thought to be connected to non-local fluctuations of either spin or charge degrees of freedom and therefore of unconventional type.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-15 Oliver Bodensiek , Rok Zitko , Matthias Vojta , Mark Jarrell , Thomas Pruschke

The condensation of fermion pairs lies at the heart of superfluidity. However, for strongly correlated systems with reduced dimensionality the mechanisms of pairing and condensation are still not fully understood. In our experiment we use…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 M. G. Ries , A. N. Wenz , G. Zürn , L. Bayha , I. Boettcher , D. Kedar , P. A. Murthy , M. Neidig , T. Lompe , S. Jochim

We develop a self-consistent microscopic framework beyond mean-field theory for monolayer cuprate superconductivity. It couples fermionic quasiparticles with collective phase dynamics to treat the gap and superfluid stiffness. The phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 F. Yang , Y. Shi , L. Q. Chen

A theory of strongly correlated electron or hole liquids with the fermion condensate is presented and applied to the consideration of quasiparticle excitations in high temperature superconductors, in their superconducting and normal states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. R. Shaginyan

This review is written at the time of the twentieth anniversary of the discovery of high temperature superconductors, which, nearly coincides with the important discovery of the superfluid phases of ultracold trapped fermionic atoms. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-13 Qijin Chen , Jelena Stajic , K. Levin

The formation of heavy fermion bands can occur by means of the conversion of a periodic array of local moments into itinerant electrons via the Kondo effect and the huge consequent Fermi-liquid renormalizations. Leggett predicted for liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Lei Shu , D. E. MacLaughlin , C. M. Varma , O. O. Bernal , P. -C. Ho , R. H. Fukuda , X. P. Shen , M. B. Maple

Fermionic superfluidity requires the formation of pairs. The actual size of these fermion pairs varies by orders of magnitude from the femtometer scale in neutron stars and nuclei to the micrometer range in conventional superconductors.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-08-14 Christian H. Schunck , Yong-il Shin , Andre Schirotzek , Wolfgang Ketterle

This article develops a Fermi-liquid theory for superconductors with anisotropic Fermi surfaces, Fermi-liquid interactions, and energy gaps. For d-wave superconductors, the Fermi-liquid interaction effects are found to be classifiable into…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. B. Walker