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YPtBi, a topological semimetal with very low carrier density, was recently found to be superconducting below $T_\mathrm{c} = 0.77$\,K. In the conventional theory, the nearly vanishing density of states around the Fermi level would imply a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-06 Markus Meinert

Topological superconductors as characterized by Majorana surface states has been actively searched for their significance in fundamental science and technological implication. The large spin-orbit coupling in Bi-Pd binaries has stimulated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-30 Hongchul Choi , Madhab Neupane , T. Sasagawa , Elbert E. M. Chia , Jian-Xin Zhu

We identify graphene as a system where chiral superconductivity can be realized. Chiral superconductivity involves a pairing gap that winds in phase around the Fermi surface, breaking time reversal symmetry. We consider a unique situation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov , Andrey Chubukov

Fluctuating superconductivity - vestigial Cooper pairing in the resistive state of a material - is usually associated with low dimensionality, strong disorder or low carrier density. Here, we report single particle spectroscopic,…

Moir\'e materials provide exciting platforms for studying the interplay of strong electronic correlation and large magnetic flux effects. We study the lightly doped Hofstadter-Hubbard model on a triangular lattice through large-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-04 Feng Chen , Wen O. Wang , Jia-Xin Zhang , Leon Balents , D. N. Sheng

Topological superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which the fully gapped superconducting bulk hosts gapless Majorana surface states protected by topology. Intercalation of copper, strontium or niobium between the quintuple…

A model is proposed such that quasi-particles (electrons or holes) residing in the CuO2 planes of cuprates may interact leading to metallic or superconducting behaviors. The metallic phase is obtained when the quasi-particles are treated as…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 P. R. Silva

We address the possible emergence of spin triplet superconductivity in CrO$_{2}$ bilayers, which are half-metals with fully spin-polarized conducting bands. Starting from a lattice model, we show that chiral $p+ip$ states compete with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-13 Xu Dou , Kangjun Seo , Bruno Uchoa

The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in the heavy-fermion material UTe$_2$ has reinvigorated research of spin-triplet superconductivity. We perform a theoretical study of coupled two-component spin-triplet superconducting order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-23 Henrik S. Røising , Max Geier , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen

We propose a scenario for superconductivity at strong electron-electron attractive interaction, in the case when the increase of the interaction strength promotes the nucleation of the local Cooper pairs and forms a state with a spatially…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-27 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

Demonstrating superconductivity in purely repulsive Hubbard models is a compelling goal which underscores the counter-intuitive ability of Coulomb interactions to mediate superconductivity. Here, we present numerical evidence for robust…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-04 Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Stefan Divic , Michael P. Zaletel , Tomohiro Soejima , Ashvin Vishwanath

Superconductivity usually emerges from a metallic normal state which follows the Fermi-liquid paradigm. If, in contrast, the normal state is a fractionalized non-Fermi liquid, then pairing may either eliminate fractionalization via a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-22 Matthew Bunney , Urban F. P. Seifert , Stephan Rachel , Matthias Vojta

Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in UTe$_2$, we analyze the stability and nodal structure of various triplet superconducting order parameters. Using a combination of symmetry group-theoretical analysis,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-30 Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

We investigate the properties and the microscopic structure of superconductivity (SC), coexisting and sharing the common conducting band with density wave (DW). Such coexistence may take place when the nesting of the Fermi surface (FS) is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Grigoriev

Using large-scale dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we explore the unconventional superconductivity in the hole-doped Hubbard model on the triangular lattice. Due to the interplay of electronic correlations, geometric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-09 Kuang Shing Chen , Zi Yang Meng , Unjong Yu , Shuxiang Yang , Mark Jarrell , Juana Moreno

We utilize the Hubbard model to demonstrate that doping of the antiferromagnetic parent compounds of cuprate superconductors stabilizes a spin liquid state. Superconductivity in such a state emerges due to the spin-orbit coupling between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-17 Sergei Urazhdin

The two-orbital Hubbard model with the Hund coupling is investigated in a metallic phase close to the Mott insulator. We calculate the one-particle spectral function and the optical conductivity within dynamical mean field theory, for which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Yoshiki Imai , Norio Kawakami

A large number of half-Heusler compounds have been recently proposed as three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) with tunable physical properties.However, no transport measurements associated with the topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-08 Guizhou Xu , Wenhong Wang , Xiaoming Zhang , Yin Du , Enke Liu , Shouguo Wang , Guangheng Wu , Zhongyuan Liu , Xi Xiang Zhang

We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion $\varepsilon \sim k^4$, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Minho Kim , Abigail Timmel , Long Ju , Xiao-Gang Wen

The electronic structure of the superconducting surface sheath in a type-II superconductor in magnetic fields $H_{c2}<H<H_{c3}$ is calculated self-consistently using the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. We find that the pair potential…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Robert J. Troy , Alan T. Dorsey