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We investigate superconducting transport in the DC field induced Wannier-Stark flat bands in the presence of interactions. Flat bands offer the possibility of unconventional high temperature superconductivity, where the superfluid weight,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Si Min Chan , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach , G. George Batrouni

A critical result in superconductivity is that flat bands, though dispersionless, can still host nonzero superfluid weight due to quantum geometry. We show that the derivation of the mean field superfluid weight in previous literature is…

Certain lattice wave systems in translationally invariant settings have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat or independent of momentum in the tight binding approximation, arising from either internal symmetries or fine-tuned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Daniel Leykam , Alexei Andreanov , Sergej Flach

When the electronic dispersion in a material is independent of momentum, it gives rise to strongly correlated flat bands, with the single particle energy, quenched. Though the notion of flat bands had been known since long, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Madhuparna Karmakar

In contrast to standard BCS superconductivity, that in flat bands (FBs) possesses an interesting degree of freedom that enables the control of the superfluid weight (SFW), referred to as the quantum metric (QM). In the present work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-27 M. Thumin , G. Bouzerar

Flat bands may offer a route to high critical temperatures of superconductivity. It has been predicted that the quantum geometry of the bands as well as the ratio of the number of flat bands to the number of orbitals determine flat band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-04 Reko P. S. Penttilä , Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Päivi Törmä

It is a well known fact, that the disorder has its most dramatic effects on the conventional quantum transport in one dimensional systems. In flat band (FB) systems, it is revealed that the conductivity at the FB energy is robust against…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 G. Bouzerar

Electronic flat bands can lead to rich many-body quantum phases by quenching the electron's kinetic energy and enhancing many-body correlation. The reduced bandwidth can be realized by either destructive quantum interference in frustrated…

Flat-band (FB) materials have emerged as promising platforms for exploring exotic quantum phases. While numerous candidates have recently been identified through spectroscopic techniques such as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-25 Fabian Garmroudi , Xinlin Yan , Silke Paschen , Sean M. Thomas , Eric D. Bauer , Andrej Pustogow , Priscila F. S. Rosa

Topological flat bands (TFBs) are increasingly recognized as an important paradigm to study topological effects in the context of strong correlation physics. As a representative example, recently it has been theoretically proposed that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Yuhui Wang , Shupeng Xu , Liang Feng , Ritesh Agarwal

Surface superconductivity in rhombohedral graphite is a robust phenomenon which can exist even when higher order hoppings between the layers lift the topological protection of the surface flat band and introduce a quadratic dispersion of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-13 N. B. Kopnin , M. Ijäs , A. Harju , T. T. Heikkilä

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

In multi-band metals quasi-particles arising from different atomic orbitals coexist at a common Fermi surface. Superconductivity in these materials may appear due to interactions within a band (intra-band) or among the distinct metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Aline Ramires , Mucio A. Continentino

We investigate the disordered flat-band superconductivity within the attractive Hubbard model on the kagome lattice by contrasting the flat-band-preserving disorder [Phys. Rev. B 98, 235109 (2018)] with the random hopping disorder that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-06 Jicheol Kim , Dong-Hee Kim

Electrons in condensed matter may transition into a variety of broken-symmetry phase states due to electron-electron interactions. Applying diverse mean-field approximations to the interaction term is arguably the simplest way to identify…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Maxim Trushin , Liangtao Peng , Gargee Sharma , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

Inter-twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials can host low-energy flat bands, which offer opportunity to investigate many intriguing physics associated with strong electron correlations. In the existing systems, ultra-flat bands…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Shengdan Tao , Xuanlin Zhang , Jiaojiao Zhu , Pimo He , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu , Su-Huai Wei

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

We compare predictions of the mean-field theory of superconductivity for nearly antiferromagnetic and nearly ferromagnetic metals for cubic and tetragonal lattices. The calculations are based on the parametrization of an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Monthoux , G. G. Lonzarich

Different types of superfluid ground states have been investigated in systems of two species of fermions with Fermi surfaces that do not match. This study is relevant for cold atomic systems, condensed matter physics and quark matter. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-21 Mucio A. Continentino , Igor T. Padilha

We consider superconducting properties of a two-dimensional Dirac material such as graphene under strain that produces a flat band spectrum in the normal state. We show that in the superconducting state, such a model results in a highly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-22 V. J. Kauppila , F. Aikebaier , T. T. Heikkilä