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We formulate the superfluid weight in unconventional superconductors with $\bm k$-dependent Cooper pair potentials based on the geometric properties of Bloch electrons. We apply the formula to a model of the monolayer FeSe obtained by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-31 Taisei Kitamura , Tatsuya Yamashita , Jun Ishizuka , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

We formulate a generalized pseudospin formalism for multiband superconductors in the presence of an external perturbing electromagnetic field. Our theory naturally captures the effects of quantum band geometric quantities and is valid even…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Kristian Hauser Villegas

The quantum metric is a central quantity of band theory but has so far not been related to many response coefficients due to its nonclassical origin. However, within a newly developed Kubo formalism for fast relaxation, the decomposition of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Johannes Mitscherling , Tobias Holder

Kogan et al. [Phys. Rev. B 80, 014507 (2009)] present a two-band model to investigate its effect on superconducting properties as, e.g., the superfluid density, the specific heat, the dependence of the superconducting transition temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-22 Annette Bussmann-Holder

We propose an ultracold-atom setting where a fermionic superfluidity with attractive s-wave interaction is uploaded in a non-Hermitian Lieb optical lattice. The existence of a real-energy flat band solution is revealed. We show that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-18 Peng He , Hai-Tao Ding , Shi-Liang Zhu

We consider two-body bound states in a flat band of a multiband system. The existence of pair dispersion predicts the possibility of breaking the degeneracy of the band and creating order, such as superconductivity. Within a separable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-02 Paivi Torma , Long Liang , Sebastiano Peotta

Recent experimental study unveiled highly unconventional phenomena in the superconducting twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with ultra flat bands, which cannot be described by the conventional BCS theory. For example, given the small Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-05 Shuai A. Chen , K. T. Law

Over the past ten years, flat band (FB) or geometric superconductivity has become a major issue in condensed matter physics due to the significant technological benefits it could offer. Observations of this unconventional form of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-11 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

The quantum mechanics of superconducting circuits is derived by starting from a classical Hamiltonian dynamical system describing a dissipationless circuit, usually made of capacitive and inductive elements. However, standard approaches to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Andrew Osborne , Andrew Lucas

Ferroelectricity, band topology, and superconductivity are respectively local, global, and macroscopic properties of quantum materials, and understanding their mutual couplings offers unique opportunities for exploring rich physics and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-22 Jianyong Chen , Ping Cui , Zhenyu Zhang

We elaborate that $s$-wave and $d$-wave superconductors described by mean field theories possess a nontrivial quantum geometry. From the overlap of two quasihole states at slightly different momenta, one can define a quantum metric that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-13 David Porlles , Wei Chen

We discuss and review the basic physics that leads to superfluidity/superconductivity in certain quantum Hall states, in particular the so-called double-layered (mmm) state. In the K-matrix description of the quantum correlation in quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 X. -G. Wen , A. Zee

Supersolidity -- a quantum-mechanical phenomenon characterized by the presence of both superfluidity and crystalline order -- was initially envisioned in the context of bulk solid helium, as a possible answer to the question of whether a…

While regular flat bands are good for enhancing the density of states and hence the gap, they are detrimental to the superfluid weight. We show that the predicted nontrivial topology of the two lowest flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-29 Fang Xie , Zhida Song , Biao Lian , B. Andrei Bernevig

Bloch wave functions of electrons have properties called quantum geometry, which has recently attracted much attention as the origin of intriguing physical phenomena. In this paper, we introduce the notion of the quantum-geometric pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-12 Akito Daido , Taisei Kitamura , Youichi Yanase

Several physical phenomena in superconductors, such as helical superconductivity and the diode effect, rely on breaking time-reversal symmetry. This symmetry-breaking is usually accounted for via the Lifshitz invariant, a contribution to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-25 Aaron Dunbrack , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

Quantum geometry, describing the geometric properties of the Bloch wave function in momentum space, has recently been recognized as a fundamental concept in condensed matter physics. The flat-band system offers the paradigmatic platform…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 Taisei Kitamura , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

In a flat band superconductor, the charge carriers' group velocity vF is extremely slow, quenching their kinetic energy. The emergence of superconductivity thus appears paradoxical, as conventional BCS theory implies a vanishing coherence…

The superfluid stiffness fundamentally constrains the transition temperature of superconductors, especially in the strongly coupled regime. However, accurately determining this inherently quantum many-body property in microscopic models…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Qiang Gao , Zhaoyu Han , Eslam Khalaf

This article is a review o over theory of superconductivity, which is constructed for systems with two overlapping energy bands at the Fermi surface and with arbitrary charge carrier density.There is taken into account all possible kinds of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Palistrant