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Superfluidity or superconductivity with mismatched Fermi momenta appears in many systems such as charge neutral dense quark matter, asymmetric nuclear matter, and in imbalanced cold atomic gases. The mismatch plays the role of breaking the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mei Huang

Near a quantum-critical point in a metal a strong fermion-fermion interaction, mediated by a soft boson, destroys fermionic coherence and also gives rise to superconductivity. In a class of large $N$ models, one would naively expect an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-24 Yi-Ming Wu , Artem Abanov , Yuxuan Wang , Andrey V. Chubukov

We formulate a general framework for addressing both odd- and even-frequency superconductivity in Dirac semimetals and demonstrate that the odd-frequency or the Berezinskii pairing can naturally appear in these materials because of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-20 P. O. Sukhachov , Vladimir Juricic , A. V. Balatsky

We discuss dynamical response of odd-frequency Cooper pairs to electromagnetic field. By using the quasiclassical Green function method, we calculate the surface impedance (Z=R-iX) of a normal metal thin film which covers a superconductor.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-25 Yasuhiro Asano , Alexander A. Golubov , Yakov V. Fominov , Yukio Tanaka

We show that a random interacting model exhibits solvable non-Fermi liquid behavior and exotic pairing behavior. This model, dubbed as the Yukawa-SYK model, describes the random Yukawa coupling between $M$ quantum dots each hosting $N$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Yuxuan Wang

This paper discusses the origin of a nonuniform superconducting state in which Cooper pairs have a small but finite center-of-mass momentum. We analyze the instability of the normal state to such finite-momentum states using the pole of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-25 Takumi Sato , Satoru Hayami , Shingo Kobayashi , Yasuhiro Asano

In quantum critical metals, a plethora of different non-Fermi liquids arises depending on the nature of critical fluctuations coupled to Fermi surfaces. In this paper, we classify non-Fermi liquids that arise from q=0 critical fluctuations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Shubham Kukreja , Dawson M. Willerton , Sung-Sik Lee

Different types of superfluid ground states have been investigated in systems of two species of fermions with Fermi surfaces that do not match. This study is relevant for cold atomic systems, condensed matter physics and quark matter. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-21 Mucio A. Continentino , Igor T. Padilha

To pinpoint the microscopic mechanism for superconductivity has proven to be one of the most outstanding challenges in the physics of correlated quantum matter. Thus far, the most direct evidence for an electronic pairing mechanism is the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-29 Mathias S. Scheurer , Jörg Schmalian

We study the unconventional superconducting correlations caused by a single isolated magnetic impurity in a conventional s-wave superconductor. Due to the local breaking of time-reversal symmetry, the impurity induces unconventional…

Odd-frequency superconductivity describes a class of superconducting states where the superconducting gap is an odd function in relative time and Matsubara frequency. We present a group theoretical analysis based on the linearized gap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-17 R. Matthias Geilhufe , Alexander V. Balatsky

We investigate the role of quantum geometry in the Meissner response for odd-frequency superconducting pairs in multiband systems. Odd-frequency pairing is traditionally associated with a paramagnetic Meissner response, which raises…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-03 Ankita Bhattacharya , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

A model of copper-oxygen bonding and anti-bonding bands with the most general two-body interactions allowable by symmetry is considered. The model has a continuous transition as a function of hole-density x and temperature T to a phase in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 C. M. Varma

We compute transport and thermodynamic properties of a two-band spin-fermion model describing itinerant fermions in two dimensions interacting via $Z_2$ antiferromagnetic quantum critical fluctuations by means of a sign-problem-free quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-14 Rafael M. P. Teixeira , Catherine Pépin , Hermann Freire

We investigate odd-in-time - or odd-frequency - pairing of fermions in equilibrium systems within the particle-number-conserving framework of Penrose, Onsager and Yang, where superfluid order is defined by macroscopic eigenvalues of reduced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-15 K. Thompson , U. Zülicke , J. Schmalian , M. Governale , J. Brand

The last 15 years have witnessed important progresses in our understanding of the mechanism of superconductivity in the high-$T_{c}$ cuprates. There is now strong evidence that the strange metal behavior is induced by the quantum critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-28 Tao Li

A quantum critical point (QCP) represents a continuous phase transition at absolute zero. At the QCP of an unconventional superconductor, enhanced superconducting transition temperature and magnetic fluctuations strength are often observed…

We propose a physical scheme for the realization of two-dimensional topological odd-parity superfluidity in a spin-independent bond-centered square optical lattice based upon interband fermion pairing. The D4 point-group symmetry of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 Zhi-Fang Xu , Andreas Hemmerich , W. Vincent Liu

We propose an all-electrical experimental setup to detect and manipulate the amplitude of odd-frequency pairing in a double quantum dot. Odd-frequency pair amplitude is induced from the breakdown of orbital symmetry when Cooper pairs are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Pablo Burset , Bo Lu , Hiromi Ebisu , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka

We study how an inversion-breaking quantum critical point affects the ground state of a one-dimensional electronic liquid with repulsive interaction and spin-orbit coupling. We find that regardless of the interaction strength, the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-07 Jonathan Ruhman , Vladyslav Kozii , Liang Fu