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Predicting the fate of an interacting system in the limit where the electronic bandwidth is quenched is often highly non-trivial. The complex interplay between interactions and quantum fluctuations driven by the band geometry can drive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-02 Johannes S. Hofmann , Erez Berg , Debanjan Chowdhury

We study the superconducting transition in the attractive Hubbard model in two dimensions using the self-consistent $T$-matrix approximation. We demonstrate that for large system sizes, this approximate method produces XY critical scaling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan R. Engelbrecht , Alexander B. Nazarenko

We present a microscopic study of the behavior of the order parameters near boundaries of a two-band superconducting material, described by the standard tight-binding Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer model. We find superconducting surface states.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-21 Andrea Benfenati , Albert Samoilenka , Egor Babaev

A fundamental characteristic of a superconducting state is the coherence length $\xi$. Multicomponent superconductors, particularly ones breaking multiple symmetries, are characterized by multiple coherence lengths. Here we show that even,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-17 Anton Talkachov , Paul Leask , Egor Babaev

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

We present here a microscopic two-band model based on the structure of energetic levels of holes in $\mathrm{CuO}_{2}$ conducting layers of cuprates. We prove that two energetically near-lying interacting bands can explain the electron-hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-03 J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra , A. -S. Dömel

In this work we study a two-band model of a superconductor in a square lattice. One band is narrow in energy and includes local Coulomb correlations between its quasi-particles. Pairing occurs in this band due to nearest neighbor attractive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-03 Daniel Reyes , Nei Lopes , Mucio A. Continentino , Christopher Thomas

In this study, the pairing mechanism for layered HTS materials based on attraction between electrons from adjacent layers is proposed. Initially, each layer has expanded Fermi sphere owing to ridged geometry. When the two layers are close…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-20 A. Tavkhelidze

Quantum geometry has been shown to make an important contribution to the superfluid stiffness of superconductors, especially for flat-band systems such as moir\'e materials. In this work we use mean-field theory to derive an expression for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-19 Yongxin Zeng , Andrew J. Millis

In this paper the fundamental parameters of high-$T_c$ superconductivity are shown to be connected to the statistics of pairons (hole pairs in their antiferromagnetic environment) on a square lattice. In particular, we study the density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-15 Yves Noat , Alain Mauger , William Sacks

We study a possible superconductivity in quasiperiodic systems, by portraying the issue within the attractive Hubbard model on a Penrose lattice. Applying a real-space dynamical mean-field theory to the model consisting of 4181 sites, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-25 Shiro Sakai , Nayuta Takemori , Akihisa Koga , Ryotaro Arita

The nature of the effective interaction responsible for pairing in the high-temperature superconducting cuprates remains unsettled. This question has been studied extensively using the simplified single-band Hubbard model, which does not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-05 Peizhi Mai , Giovanni Balduzzi , Steven Johnston , Thomas A. Maier

We study conditions for the emergence of the preformed Cooper pairs in materials hosting flat bands. As a particular example, we consider a semimetal, with a pair of three-band crossing points at which a flat band intersects with a Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-23 Alexander A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

In a flat Bloch band the kinetic energy is quenched and single particles cannot propagate since they are localized due to destructive interference. Whether this remains true in the presence of interactions is a challenging question because…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-04 Murad Tovmasyan , Sebastiano Peotta , Long Liang , Päivi Törmä , Sebastian D. Huber

We discuss superconducting pairing in a narrow conduction band sandwiched between unoccupied and occupied bands, an arrangement that enables an unconventional pairing mechanism governed by Coulomb repulsion. Pairing interaction originates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-30 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

We analyze the generic features of the energy spectrum for two coupled CuO$_2$ layers with a realistic extended Hubbard model. The quasiparticle bands exhibit flat regions near X(Y) points in the Brillouin zone with a large reduction of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Liechtenstein , O. Gunnarsson , O. K. Andersen , R. M. Martin

Superconductivity emerges from the spatial coherence of a macroscopic condensate of Cooper pairs. Increasingly strong binding and localization of electrons into these pairs compromises the condensate's phase stiffness, thereby limiting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-18 Niklas Witt , Yusuke Nomura , Sergey Brener , Ryotaro Arita , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Tim O. Wehling

Flatbands appear in many condensed matter systems, such as in high magnetic fields, correlated materials and moire heterostructures. They are characterized by intrinsic geometric properties such as the Berry curvature and Fubini-Study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jie Wang , Jennifer Cano , Andrew J. Millis , Zhao Liu , Bo Yang

The pairing of charge carriers with large pair momentum is considered in connection with high-temperature superconductivity of cuprate compounds. The possibility of pairing arises due to some essential features of quasi-two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Belyavsky , Yu. V. Kopaev

One promising way to enhance superconductivity is to have coexisting wide and incipient narrow bands, where the Fermi level intersecting the wide band lies just above the narrow band, by which finite-energy spin fluctuations act as glue to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-21 Tetsuaki Aida , Karin Matsumoto , Daisuke Ogura , Masayuki Ochi , Kazuhiko Kuroki