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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

Flat-band superconductors provide a regime in which kinetic energy is quenched, so that pairing is governed primarily by interactions and quantum geometry. We investigate characteristic superconducting length scales in all-flat-band systems…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-13 S. S. Elden , M. Iskin

Within ten years, flat band (FB) superconductivity has gained a huge interest for its remarkable features and connection to quantum geometry. We investigate the superconductivity in a FB system whose orbitals are inequivalent and in which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-09 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

The superfluid weight of an isolated flat band in multi-orbital superconductors contains contributions from the band's quantum metric and a lattice geometric term that depends on the orbital positions in the lattice. Since the superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-15 Guodong Jiang , Yafis Barlas

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

We investigate the impacts of the quantum geometry of Bloch states, specifically through the band-resolved quantum-metric tensor, on Cooper pairing and flat-band superconductivity in a three-dimensional pyrochlore-Hubbard model. First we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 M. Iskin

Flat-band superconductivity has theoretically demonstrated the importance of band topology to correlated phases. In two dimensions, the superfluid weight, which determines the critical temperature through the Berezinksii-Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Valerio Peri , Frank Schindler , Sebastian D. Huber , B. Andrei Bernevig

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

The symmetry of Cooper pairs encodes key information about superconductivity and has been widely studied through the temperature dependence of the superfluid weight. However, in systems dominated by quantum geometry, conventional theories…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-20 Yuma Hirobe , Taisei Kitamura , Youichi Yanase

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 importance of the quantum metric in flat-band systems has been noticed recently in many contexts such as the superfluid stiffness, the dc electrical conductivity, and ideal Chern insulators. Both the quantum metric of degenerate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bruno Mera , Johannes Mitscherling

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 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

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

Although evidence of inter-valley attraction-mediated by phonon or topological fluctuations is accumulating, the origin of superconductivity in the flat-band quantum moir\'e materials remains an open question. Here, instead of attempting to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-01 Xu Zhang , Kai Sun , Heqiu Li , Gaopei Pan , Zi Yang Meng

We propose a two band model for superconductivity. It turns out that the simplest nontrivial case considers solely interband scattering, and both bands can be modeled as symmetric (around the Fermi level) and flat, thus each band is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 R. E. Lagos , G. G. Cabrera

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

Quantum geometry strongly impacts physical properties in flat-band systems. We consider its role in bosonic condensation and superfluidity on flat bands, and show that the superfluid weight has an important contribution proportional to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-11 Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Matteo Dürrnagel , Valerio Peri , Sebastian D. Huber

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

We investigate aspects of the relation between the quantum geometry of the normal state (NS) and the superconducting phase, through the lens of non-locality. By relating band theory to quantum estimation theory, we derive a direct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-11 Florian Simon
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