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Unlike conventional charge-2e superconductors, a charge-4e superconductor exhibits long-range coherence of electron quartets rather than Cooper pairs. Clear zero-temperature realizations of charge-4e superconductivity remain rare. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Zhou-Quan Wan , Huan Jiang , Xuan Zou , Shiwei Zhang , Shao-Kai Jian

Many features of charge-4e superconductors remain unknown because even the "mean-field Hamiltonian" describing them is an interacting model. Here we introduce an interacting model to describe a charge-4e superconductor (SC) deep in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-14 Yi-Fan Jiang , Zi-Xiang Li , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong Yao

A phase of matter in which fermion quartets form a superconducting condensate, rather than the paradigmatic Cooper pairs, is a recurrent subject of experimental and theoretical studies. However, a comprehensive microscopic understanding of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-12 Martina O. Soldini , Mark H. Fischer , Titus Neupert

A charge-$4e$ superconductor forms due to the condensation of quartets of electrons. While in previous works the mechanism for the formation of charge-$4e$ superconductivity has been analyzed in terms of the binding of Cooper pairs in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov , Yuxuan Wang

Superconductivity is usually understood as a phase in which charge-$2e$ Cooper pairs are condensed. Charge-$4e$ superconductivity has largely been discussed as a vestigial order at finite temperature emerging from charge-$2e$ states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-19 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Yan-Qi Wang , Ya-Hui Zhang , Hui Yang

A number of spectacular experimental anomalies\cite{li-2007,fujita-2005} have recently been discovered in certain cuprates, notably {\LBCO} and {\LNSCO}, which exhibit unidirectional spin and charge order (known as ``stripe order''). We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-04 E. Berg , E. Fradkin , S. A. Kivelson

Charge-$4e$ superconductivity is an exotic state of matter that may emerge as a vestigial order from a charge-$2e$ superconductor with multicomponent superconducting order parameters. Showing its emergence in a microscopic model from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-31 Xuan Zou , Zhou-Quan Wan , Hong Yao

The recent discovery of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds has garnered significant experimental and theoretical interest because of the record-setting critical temperatures. As the direct observation of the superconducting (SC)…

Charge-$4e$ superconductors are phases where quartets of electrons condense in the absence of Cooper pairing condensation. They exhibit distinctive signatures including fractional flux quantization and anomalous Josephson effects, and are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Yan-Qi Wang , Hui Yang , Congjun Wu

In superconductors, electrons bound into Cooper pairs conduct a dissipationless current. The strength of the Cooper pairs scales with the value of the critical transition temperature (Tc). In cuprate high-Tc superconductors, however, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-09 Shiro Sakai , Marcello Civelli , Masatoshi Imada

The mutual interaction between Cooper pairs is proposed as a mechanism for the superconducting state. Above $T_c$, pre-existing but fluctuating Cooper pairs give rise to the unconventional {\it pseudogap} (PG) state, well-characterized by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-30 William Sacks , Alain Mauger , Yves Noat

Fermionic condensation typically occurs via pairing. In recent decades, however, a fundamental question has emerged: whether alternative forms of order exist, such as condensates of fermion quadruplets. These states--including ``charge-4e"…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-04 Alexandru Golic , Egor Babaev , Johan Carlström

Experimental quest for high-temperature and room-temperature superconductivity (SC) at ambient pressure has been a long-standing research theme in physics. It has also been desired to construct reliable microscopic mechanisms that may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-08 Xun Cai , Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

A theory of strongly correlated electron or hole liquids with the fermion condensate is presented and applied to the consideration of quasiparticle excitations in high temperature superconductors, in their superconducting and normal states.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. R. Shaginyan

The material realization of the charge-4e/6e superconductivity (SC) is a big challenge. Here we propose realization of the charge-4e SC and chiral metal through stacking a homo-bilayer with the largest twist angle, forming the twist-bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-12 Yu-Bo Liu , Jing Zhou , Congjun Wu , Fan Yang

In this paper, we present in-depth analysis of the condensation energy $E_c$ for a superconductor in a situation when superconductivity emerges out of a non-Fermi liquid due to pairing mediated by a massless boson. This is the case for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 Shang-Shun Zhang , Yi-Ming Wu , Artem Abanov , Andrey V. Chubukov

Charge-$4e$ superconductivity as a novel phase of matter remains elusive so far. Here we show that charge-$4e$ phase can arise as a vestigial order above the nematic superconducting transition temperature in time-reversal-invariant nematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Shao-Kai Jian , Yingyi Huang , Hong Yao

Recent experimental evidence for the charge-$6e$ condensed phase in kagome superconductors has generated significant interest. We investigate the unconventional superconductivity in the kagome superconductor $\mathrm{CsV_3Sb_5}$, focusing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-25 Feng-Feng Song , Guang-Ming Zhang

In strongly-correlated systems the electronic properties at the Fermi energy (EF) are intertwined with those at high energy scales. One of the pivotal challenges in the field of high-temperature superconductivity (HTSC) is to understand…

We analyse a $2+1$ dimensional model with charged, relativistic fermions interacting through a four-Fermi term. Taking advantage of its large-$N$ renormalizability, the various phases of this model are studied at finite temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 R. MacKenzie , P. K. Panigrahi , S. Sakhi
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