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We introduce and study a realistic model for superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_{2}$, where electron pairing arises from spin-valley fluctuations in the weak-coupling regime. Our model comprises both the full continuum model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-26 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

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

In moir\'e heterostructures, gate-tunable insulating phases driven by electronic correlations have been recently discovered. Here, we use transport measurements to characterize the gate-driven metal-insulator transitions and the metallic…

Superconductivity mediated by spin fluctuations in weak and nearly ferromagnetic metals is studied close to the zero-temperature magnetic transition. We solve analytically the Eliashberg equations for p-wave pairing and obtain the normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Ziqiang Wang , Wenjin Mao , Kevin Bedell

The observation of flat energy bands in transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers such as twisted WSe${}_2$ makes those materials interesting prospects for reproducing the behavior observed in graphene-based systems. We use an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Mathieu Bélanger , Jérôme Fournier , David Sénéchal

Superconductivity has recently been observed in moir\'e transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers. Here, we investigate the superconducting state in twisted WSe$_2$ using two complementary theoretical approaches. The first is based on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Waseem Akbar , Michał Zegrodnik

Superconductivity in lanthanide- and actinide-based heavy-fermion metals can have different microscopic origins. Among others, Cooper pair formation based on fluctuations of the valence, of the quadrupole moment or of the spin of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-21 F. Steglich , O. Stockert , S. Wirth , C. Geibel , H. Q. Yuan , S. Kirchner , Q. Si

Superconductivity of iron chalocogenides is strongly enhanced under applied pressure yet its underlying pairing mechanism remains elusive. Here, we present a quantum oscillations study up to 45 T in the high-$T_c$ phase of tetragonal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-18 Z. Zajicek , P. Reiss , D. Graf , J. C. A. Prentice , Y. Sadki , A. A. Haghighirad , A. I. Coldea

Motivated by the recent observations of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ (tWSe$_2$), we theoretically investigate the superconductivity driven by electronic mechanism. We first demonstrate that the multi-band screened Coulomb…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-17 Wei Qin , Wen-Xuan Qiu , Fengcheng Wu

Motivated by recent experiments reporting superconductivity only at very low temperature in a class of heavy fermion compounds, we study the impact of energy fluctuations with small momentum transfer on the pairing instability near an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-31 Jian Kang , Rafael M. Fernandes , Elihu Abrahams , Peter Wölfle

The metal-metal bond in metal-rich chalcogenide is known to exhibit various structures and dominate interesting physical properties. Ta2Se can be obtained by both arc-melting and solid-state pellet methods. Ta2Se crystallizes a layered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-23 Xin Gui , Karolina Gornicka , Tomasz Klimczuk , Weiwei Xie

In several unconventional superconductors, the highest superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ is found in a region of the phase diagram where the antiferromagnetic transition temperature extrapolates to zero, signaling a putative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-31 Xiaoyu Wang , Yoni Schattner , Erez Berg , Rafael M. Fernandes

I show that for a \kappa-type organic (BEDT-TTF)_2-X molecular crystal, a superconducting state with T_c ~ 10 K and gap nodes on the Fermi surface can be caused by short-ranged antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations. Using a two-band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Joerg Schmalian

The pairing symmetry in the electron mechanism for superconductivity is explored when charge fluctuations coexist with spin fluctuations. The extended Hubbard model is adopted to obtain, with the fluctuation exchange approximation, a phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-17 Seiichiro Onari , Ryotaro Arita , Kazuhiko Kuroki , Hideo Aoki

We propose a minimum single-band model for the newly discovered iron-based superconducting K$_x$Fe$_2$Se$_2$. Our model is found to be numerically consistent with the five-orbital model at low energies. Based on our model and the random…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Tao Zhou , Z. D. Wang

We present a strong coupling dynamical theory of the superconducting transition in a metal near a QCP towards $Q = 0$ nematic order. We use a fermion-boson model, in which we treat the ratio of effective boson-fermion coupling and the Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-22 Avraham Klein , Andrey Chubukov

We demonstrate that superconductivity driven by strong quantum-critical fluctuations can emerge near relativistic Mott transitions in twisted two-dimensional materials, taking on a remarkably rich character. In twisted double-bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-09 Veronika C. Stangier , Mathias S. Scheurer , Daniel E. Sheehy , Jörg Schmalian

We investigate theoretically the superconducting state of the undoped Fe-based superconductor ThFeAsN. Using input from $ab~initio$ calculations, we solve the Fermi-surface based, multichannel Eliashberg equations for Cooper-pair formation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-22 Fabian Schrodi , Fairoja Cheenicode Kabeer , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

Iron-based superconductors have been found to exhibit an intimate interplay of orbital, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom, dramatically affecting their low-energy electronic properties, including superconductivity. Albeit the precise…

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