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Predicting the fate of an interacting system in the limit where the electronic bandwidth is quenched is often highly non-trivial. The complex interplay between interactions and quantum fluctuations driven by the band geometry can drive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-02 Johannes S. Hofmann , Erez Berg , Debanjan Chowdhury

We study superconductivity and superfluid weight of the two-dimensional $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice with on-site asymmetries, hosting an isolated quasi-flat band with tunable bandwidth via a parameter $\alpha$. Within a mean-field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 M. A. Mojarro , Sergio E. Ulloa

While regular flat bands are good for enhancing the density of states and hence the gap, they are detrimental to the superfluid weight. We show that the predicted nontrivial topology of the two lowest flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-29 Fang Xie , Zhida Song , Biao Lian , B. Andrei Bernevig

Non-analytic Bloch eigenstates at isolated band degeneracy points exhibit singular behavior in the quantum metric. Here, a description of superfluid weight for zero-energy flat bands in proximity to other high-energy bands is presented,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-19 Guodong Jiang , Päivi Törmä , Yafis Barlas

Flat bands may offer a route to high critical temperatures of superconductivity. It has been predicted that the quantum geometry of the bands as well as the ratio of the number of flat bands to the number of orbitals determine flat band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-04 Reko P. S. Penttilä , Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Päivi Törmä

In flat bands, superconductivity can lead to surprising transport effects. The superfluid "mobility", in the form of the superfluid weight $D_s$, does not draw from the curvature of the band but has a purely band-geometric origin. In a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Valerio Peri , Zhida Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Sebastian D. Huber

A critical result in superconductivity is that flat bands, though dispersionless, can still host nonzero superfluid weight due to quantum geometry. We show that the derivation of the mean field superfluid weight in previous literature is…

We present exact results that give insight into how interactions lead to transport and superconductivity in a flat band where the electrons have no kinetic energy. We obtain bounds for the optical spectral weight for flat band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-25 Nishchhal Verma , Tamaghna Hazra , Mohit Randeria

We review the theoretical description of the role of quantum geometry in superfluidity and superconductivity of multiband systems, with focus on flat bands where quantum geometry is wholly responsible for supercurrents. This review differs…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-01 Sebastiano Peotta , Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Päivi Törmä

Machine learning and high-throughput screening approaches to superconductor discovery require physically meaningful descriptors that capture essential physics while remaining computationally tractable. The superfluid weight is an ideal…

Topological invariants built from the periodic Bloch functions characterize new phases of matter, such as topological insulators and topological superconductors. The most important topological invariant is the Chern number that explains the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-03 Sebastiano Peotta , Päivi Törmä

The superfluid weight of a generic lattice model with attractive Hubbard interaction is computed analytically in the isolated band limit within the generalized random phase approximation. Time-reversal symmetry, spin rotational symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-20 Minh Tam , Sebastiano Peotta

The density functional theory calculations and tight-binding models for the copper-doped lead apatite support flat bands, which could be susceptible to the emergence of high-temperature superconductivity. We develop theory for the geometric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-28 Wojciech Brzezicki , Timo Hyart

We investigate superfluidity of bosons in gapped topological bands and discover a new phase that has no counterparts in the previous literature. This phase is characterized by a highly unconventional modulation of the order parameter,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-19 Ilya Lukin , Andrii Sotnikov , Alexander Kruchkov

In flat-band superconductors, the electron pairing is strongly enhanced so that the critical temperature scales linearly with the interaction strength. Identifying the governing pairing mechanism in flat-band superconducting systems is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-19 Maximilian Buthenhoff , Yusuke Nishida

The ground state and transport properties of the Lieb lattice flat band in the presence of an attractive Hubbard interaction are considered. It is shown that the superfluid weight can be large even for an isolated and strictly flat band.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-27 Aleksi Julku , Sebastiano Peotta , Tuomas Vanhala , Dong-Hee Kim , Päivi Törmä

We study superconductivity of twisted bilayer graphene with local and non-local attractive interactions. We obtain the superfluid weight and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperature for microscopic tight-binding and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Aleksi Julku , Teemu J. Peltonen , Long Liang , Tero T. Heikkilä , Päivi Törmä

We investigate superconducting transport in the DC field induced Wannier-Stark flat bands in the presence of interactions. Flat bands offer the possibility of unconventional high temperature superconductivity, where the superfluid weight,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Si Min Chan , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach , G. George Batrouni

Superconductivity is traditionally viewed as a low-temperature phenomenon. Within the BCS theory this is understood to result from the fact that the pairing of electrons takes place only close to the usually two-dimensional Fermi surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Tero T. Heikkila , Grigori E. Volovik

Nontrivial quantum geometry of electronic bands has been argued to facilitate superconductivity even for the case of flat dispersions where the conventional contribution to the superfluid weight is suppressed by the large effective mass.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Maximilian Buthenhoff , Tobias Holder , Michael M. Scherer
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