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We study the superconductivity pairing mechanism in Sr2RuO4 in the limit of small interaction by extending a renormalization group calculation developed by Raghu et al. [Phys. Rev. B 81, 224505 (2010)] to include spin-orbit coupling and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Scaffidi , J. C. Romers , S. H. Simon

A microscopic Hamiltonian reflecting the correct symmetry of $f$-orbitals is proposed to discuss superconductivity in heavy fermion systems. In the orbitally degenerate region in which not only spin fluctuations but also orbital…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Tetsuya Takimoto , Takashi Hotta , Takahiro Maehira , Kazuo Ueda

The spin-orbital polarization of superconducting excitations in momentum space is shown to provide distinctive marks of unconventional pairing in the presence of inversion symmetry breaking.Taking the prototypical example of an electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Superconductivity in alkali-intercalated iron selenide, with T_c's of 30K and above, may have a different origin than that of the other Fe-based superconductors, since it appears that the Fermi surface does not have any holelike sheets…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-02 A. Kreisel , Y. Wang , T. A. Maier , P. J. Hirschfeld , D. J. Scalapino

Fermi-surface spin splitting generated by non-relativistic exchange fields provides a new route to topological superconductivity without relying on strong spin-orbit coupling. Here, we study superconducting instabilities of a square-lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Kyoung-Min Kim , Gibaik Sim , Moon Jip Park

Recent experiments in rhombohedral graphene report an unusual superconducting phase emerging from a spin- and valley-polarized quarter-metal state. The prevailing interpretation invokes chiral topological superconductivity, but the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Chiho Yoon , Fan Zhang

The possibility of intrinsic superconductivity in alkali-coated graphene monolayers has been recently suggested theoretically. Here, we derive the possible pairing symmetries of a carbon honeycomb lattice and discuss their phase diagram. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-17 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Stackings in graphene have a pivotal role in properties to be discussed in the future, as seen in the recently found superconductivity of twisted bilayer graphene. Beyond bilayer graphene, the stacking order of multilayer graphene can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Raúl Guerrero-Avilés , Marta Pelc , Fabian Geisenhof , Thomas Weitz , Andrés Ayuela

We construct the symmetry adapted low energy effective Hamiltonian for the electronic states in the vicinity of the Fermi level in iron based superconductors. We use Luttinger's method of invariants, expanding about Gamma and M points in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-16 Vladimir Cvetkovic , Oskar Vafek

We present first-principles calculations of the electronic band structure and spin-orbit effects in graphene functionalized with methyl molecules in dense and dilute limits. The dense limit is represented by a 2$\times$2 graphene supercell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Klaus Zollner , Tobias Frank , Susanne Irmer , Martin Gmitra , Denis Kochan , Jaroslav Fabian

We demonstrate that strong inter-orbital interaction is very efficient to achieve superconductivity due to magnetic fluctuations in the iron pnictides. Fermi surface states that are coupled by the antiferromagnetic wave vector are often of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Junhua Zhang , Rastko Sknepnek , Rafael M. Fernandes , Joerg Schmalian

We show that introducing spin-singlet or spin-triplet superconductivity into twisted bilayer graphene induces higher-order topological superconductivity. $C_{2z}T$-protected corner states of Majorana Kramers pairs appear at the boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Aaron Chew , Yijie Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductors are exotic phases of matter with fascinating properties, which are, however, encountered rather sparsely. Here we identify the possibility of realizing such a superconducting ground state that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

We present a systematic classification and analysis of possible pairing instabilities in graphene-based moir\'e superlattices. Motivated by recent experiments on twisted double-bilayer graphene showing signs of triplet superconductivity, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-21 Mathias S. Scheurer , Rhine Samajdar

The supercurrent for the surface superconductivity of a flat-band multilayered rhombohedral graphene is calculated. Despite the absence of dispersion of the excitation spectrum, the supercurrent is finite. The critical current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 N. B. Kopnin

It is a matter of current debate whether the gate-tunable superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene is phonon-mediated or arises from electron-electron interactions. The recent observation of the strong coupling of electrons to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-20 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

A simple interlayer pair tunneling is solved exactly. We find that in the normal state spin-1/2 particle and hole excitations are gapped. But the state is an unusual metal, characterized by novel fermionic spin zero and charge +2e and -2e…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjoy K. Sarker , Philip W. Anderson

Rhombohedral graphene systems with different number of layers feature an abundance of correlated phases and superconducting states in experimental measurements with different doping and displacement fields. Some of the superconducting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-05 Guillermo Parra-Martínez , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Jose Angel Silva-Guillén , Francisco Guinea

We present a theory of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene and analyze the superconducting phase diagram in presence of the magnetic field. Namely, we consider a model of a granular array hosting localized states,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-21 SK Firoz Islam , A. Yu. Zyuzin , Alexander A. Zyuzin

It is usually believed that the spin-fluctuation mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity results in d-wave pairing, and that it is destructive for the conventional phonon-mediated pairing. We show that in bilayer materials, due to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. I. Liechtenstein , I. I. Mazin , O. K. Andersen