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We present a theory that is a non-Fermi-liquid counterpart of the Abrikosov-Gor'kov pair-breaking theory due to paramagnetic impurities in superconductors. To this end we analyze a model of interacting electrons and phonons that is a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-26 Daniel Hauck , Markus J. Klug , Ilya Esterlis , Jörg Schmalian

We study the effective low-energy fermionic theory of the Kondo-Kitaev model to leading order in the Kondo coupling. Our main goal is to understand the nature of the superconducting instability induced in the proximate metal due to its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Sondre Duna Lundemo , Asle Sudbø

We introduce a spinful variant of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with an effective time reversal symmetry, which can be solved exactly in the limit of a large number $N$ of degrees of freedom. At low temperature, its phase diagram includes a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-28 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Vedangi Pathak , Sharmistha Sahoo , Marcel Franz

Superconductivity is a quantum phenomena arising, in its simplest form, from pairing of fermions with opposite spin into a state with zero net momentum. Whether superconductivity can occur in fermionic systems with unequal number of two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Mayaffre , S. Kramer , M. Horvatić , C. Berthier , K. Miyagawa , K. Kanoda , V. F. Mitrović

Models for strongly interacting fermions in disordered clusters forming an array, with electron hopping between sites, reproduce the linear dependence on temperature of the resistivity, typical of the strange metal phase of High Temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-17 F. Salvati , A. Tagliacozzo

Recent experimental evidence for the charge-$6e$ condensed phase in kagome superconductors has generated significant interest. We investigate the unconventional superconductivity in the kagome superconductor $\mathrm{CsV_3Sb_5}$, focusing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-25 Feng-Feng Song , Guang-Ming Zhang

An unconventional superconducting phase is explored developing out of a non Fermi-liquid phase of the two-channel Anderson lattice model. It is characterized by a composite order parameter comprising of a local spin or orbital degree of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Frithjof B. Anders

Superconductivity results from an instability of the Fermi surface -- contour of \textit{poles} of the single particle propagator -- to an infinitesimally small attraction between electrons. Here, we instead discuss the analogous problem on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-14 Chandan Setty

Possibility of a quartet superfluidity in fermionic systems is studied as a new aspect of atomic gas at ultra low temperatures. The four-fold degeneracy of hyperfine state and moderate coupling is indispensable for the quartet superfluidity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Kamei , K. Miyake

We recast spinful superconductivity as a \textit{quaternion field theory}, where a quaternion is a four-component hypercomplex number with units $(\boldsymbol{e}_x,\boldsymbol{e}_y,\boldsymbol{e}_z)$, that encodes the spin-singlet/triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-27 Christian Tantardini , Jacopo Masotti , Sabri F. Elatresh , Boris Yakobson

Electron pairing at low temperatures leads to superconductivity. A fundamental question is whether more complex states - characterized by order in four-electron composite objects, termed electron quadrupling or composite order - can exist…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-23 Albert Samoilenka , Egor Babaev

In unconventional superconductors, it is generally believed that understanding the physical properties of the normal state is a pre-requisite for understanding the superconductivity mechanism. In conventional superconductors like niobium or…

The Kitaev superconducting chain is a model of spinless fermions with triplet-like superconductivity. It has raised interest since for some values of its parameters it presents a non-trivial topological phase that host Majorana fermions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-22 Edine Silva , R. C. Bento Ribeiro , Heron Caldas , Mucio A. Continentino

Superconductivity is observed in the filled skutterudite compound \PrOsSb{} below a critical temperature temperature $T_\mathrm{c} = 1.85$ K and appears to develop out of a nonmagnetic heavy Fermi liquid with an effective mass $m^{*}…

We describe a mechanism for order fractionalization in a two-dimensional Kondo lattice model, in which electrons interact with a gapless spin liquid of Majorana fermions described by the Yao-Lee (YL) model. When the Kondo coupling to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-11 Alexei M. Tsvelik , Piers Coleman

We study high-density electron-hole (e-h) systems with the electron density slightly larger than the hole density. We find a new superconducting phase, in which the excess electrons form Cooper pairs moving in an e-h BCS phase. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Masaki Shigemori , Akira Shimizu , Tobias Brandes , Jun-ichi Inoue

Phase structure of the (2+1)-dimensional model with four-fermion interaction of spin-1/2 quasiparticles (electrons) both in the fermion-antifermion (or chiral) and fermion-fermion (or superconducting) channels is considered at nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 K. G. Klimenko , R. N. Zhokhov , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

We discuss the mechanisms of unconventional superconductivity and superfluidity in 3D and 2D fermionic systems with purely repulsive interaction at low densities. We construct phase diagrams of these systems and find the areas of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-13 M. Yu. Kagan , V. A. Mitskan , M. M. Korovushkin

Cooper quartets are aggregates of four electrons that generalize the concept of Cooper pairs, and their study can unfold unexplored perspectives in correlated matter and many-body physics. We propose a method to isolate them in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Luca Chirolli , Alessandro Braggio , Michele Governale

Topological superconductors (TSCs) provide a promising route to fault-tolerant quantum information processing. However, the canonical Majorana platform based on $2e$ TSCs remains computationally constrained. In this work, we find a $4e$ TSC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Zhengyan Darius Shi , Zhaoyu Han , Srinivas Raghu , Ashvin Vishwanath