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A boundary condition for the Ginzburg-Landau wave function at surfaces biased by a strong electric field is derived within the de Gennes approach. This condition provides a simple theory of the field effect on the critical temperature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Lipavsky , K. Morawetz , J. Kolacek , T. J. Yang

Recent experiments show that an atomic step on the surface of atomically thin metallic films can strongly affect electronic transport. Here we reveal multiple and versatile effects that such a surface step can have on superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-22 L. -F. Zhang , L. Flammia , L. Covaci , A. Perali , M. V. Milošević

We show the possibility of inducing a superconductive phase transition in tetrahedrally coordinated semiconductors via field-effect (FET) doping by taking as an example the hydrogenated (111) silicon surface. We perform density functional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-12 Davide Romanin

Surfaces of ionic solids interacting with an ionic solution can build up charge by exchange of ions. The surface charge is compensated by a strip of excess charge at the border of the electrolyte forming an electric double layer. These…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Chao Zhang , Michiel Sprik

We report the observation of electric-field-induced superconductivity on the surface of bulk polycrystalline MoS2 using electric double-layer doping. A gate voltage applied in an ionic liquid environment systematically increased carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-04 Yoshihiro Shimazu , Tomonori Miyatake , Kento Ueno , Masatomo Uehara

Through a comprehensive free energy analysis, we demonstrate that finite temperature can simultaneously weaken superconductivity and mitigate spin polarization induced depairing, leading to potential non-monotonic temperature-dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-25 Xusheng Wang , Lianyi He , Shuai-hua Ji

The unified approach based on the Generalized BCS equations incorporating chemical potential employed to deal with the critical temperature, gap(s) and coherence length(s) of any superconductor (SC) in an earlier paper is shown here to be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-19 G. P. Malik , V. S. Varma

We study the effects of an external magnetic field on thensuperconducting phase diagram of a quasi-two-dimensional system of Dirac electrons at an arbitrary temperature. At zero temperature, there is a quantum phase transition connecting a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-14 E. C. Marino , Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes

Controllable geometric manipulation via micromachining techniques provides a promising tool for enhancing useful topological electrical responses relevant to future applications such as quantum information science. Here we present…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-29 Yangmu Li , Jie Wu , Fernando Camino , G. D. Gu , Ivan Božović , John M. Tranquada

In this letter, we address the impact of the electric field on superconductors which are insulators in the normal state, superconducting semiconductors at low carrier concentration and ultracold gas of fermions in the strongly interacting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-19 N. Karchev , T. Vetsov

In a superconductor electrons form pairs despite the Coulomb repulsion as a result of an effective attractive interaction mediated by, for example phonons. In the present paper DeGennes' description of the dynamically screened Coulomb…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-13 Dirk van der Marel

We suggest that the high temperature superconductivity in cuprate compounds may emerge due to interaction between copper-oxygen layers mediated by in-plane plasmons. The strength of the interaction is determined by the c-axis geometry and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Chernodub

Superconductivity in flatband systems has attracted tremendous attention in condensed matter physics. Alternating twisted multilayer graphene presents a compelling multiband system, with a coexistence of Dirac bands and flat bands, for…

Based on BCS theory with moving Cooper pairs, the electron states distribution at 0K and the probability of electron occupation with finite temperature have been derived and applied to anomalous skin effect theory to obtain the surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-10 B. P. Xiao , C. E. Reece , M. J. Kelley

We consider heterostructures obtained by stacking layers of two s-wave superconductors with significantly different coupling strengths, respectively in the weak- and strong-coupling regimes. The weak- and strong-coupling superconductors are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-31 Giacomo Mazza , Adriano Amaricci , Massimo Capone

We explore multiband effects on d-wave superconducting instabilities driven by electron-electron interactions. Our models on the two-dimensional square lattice consist of a main band with an extended Fermi surface and predominant weight…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Stefan Uebelacker , Carsten Honerkamp

We investigate the physical mechanisms for achieving an electrical control of conventional spin-singlet superconductivity in thin films by focusing on the role of surface orbital polarization. Assuming a multi-orbital description of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-18 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

In this work, we have studied the effects from increasing the strength of the applied electric field on the charge transport of hydrogenated graphitic fibers. Resistivity measurements were carried out for direct currents in the nA - mA…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-19 Nadina Gheorghiu , Charles R. Ebbing , Timothy J. Haugan

Superconductivity in strongly correlated systems is a remarkable phenomenon that attracts a huge interest. The study of this problem is relevant for materials as the high $T_c$ oxides, pnictides and heavy fermions. These systems also have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-23 D. Reyes , M. A. Continentino , F. Deus , C. Thomas

The temperature and electric field dependence of electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity (TC) of a granular superconductor is considered within a 3D model of inductive Josephson junction arrays. In addition to a low-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei Sergeenkov