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The possibility is investigated that competition between fluctuations at different symmetry-related ordering wave vectors may affect the quantum phase transition between a fermi liquid and a longitudinal spin density wave state, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-22 A. J. Millis

We show that quantum geometry induces ferromagnetic fluctuation resulting in spin-triplet superconductivity. The criterion for ferromagnetic fluctuation is clarified by analyzing contributions from the effective mass and quantum geometry.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-28 Taisei Kitamura , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

The interpretation of the magnetic phase diagrams of strongly correlated electron systems remains controversial. In particular, the physics of quantum phase transitions, which occur at zero temperature, is still enigmatic. Heavy-fermion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-08 W. Knafo , S. Raymond , P. Lejay , J. Flouquet

An earlier theory of the quantum phase transition in metallic ferromagnets is revisited and generalized in three ways. It is shown that the mechanism that leads to a fluctuation-induced first-order transition in metallic ferromagnets with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-01 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

Ferromagnetism is an iconic example of a first-order phase transition taking place in spatially extended systems and is characterized by hysteresis and the formation of domain walls. In this paper we demonstrate that an extended atomic…

This review gives an overview of the quantum phase transition (QPT) problem in metallic ferromagnets, discussing both experimental and theoretical aspects. These QPTs can be classified with respect to the presence and strength of quenched…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-02 M. Brando , D. Belitz , F. M. Grosche , T. R. Kirkpatrick

The existence of a quantum critical point (QCP) and fluctuations around it are believed to be important for understanding the phase diagram in unconventional superconductors such as cuprates, iron pnictides, and heavy fermion…

A variety of heavy fermion superconductors, such as UCoGe, UGe$_2$, and URhGe exhibit a striking coexistence of bulk ferromagnetism and superconductivity. In these systems, the magnetic moment decreases with pressure, and vanishes at a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Alfred K. C. Cheung , S. Raghu

The magnon exchange mechanism of ferromagnetic superconductivity (FM-superconductivity) was developed to explain in a natural way the fact that the superconductivity in $UGe_2$, $ZrZn_2$ and $URhGe$ is confined to the ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Karchev

A comprehensive theory of the quantum phase transition in clean, itinerant Heisenberg ferromagnets is presented. It is shown that the standard mean-field description of the transition is invalid in spatial dimensions $d\leq 3$ due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We theoretically analyze the effect of parameter fluctuations on the superradiance phase transition in a setup where a large number of superconducting qubits are coupled to a single cavity. We include parameter fluctuations that are typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 S. Ashhab , K. Semba

The magnetic fluctuations associated with a quantum critical point (QCP) are widely believed to cause the non-Fermi liquid behaviors and unconventional superconductivities, for example, in heavy fermion systems and high temperature cuprate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-09-03 R. H. Liu , G. Wu , T. Wu , D. F. Fang , H. Chen , S. Y. Li , K. Liu , Y. L. Xie , X. F. Wang , R. L. Yang , L. Ding , C. He , D. L. Feng , X. H. Chen

Quantum behavior of superconducting nanowires may essentially depend on the employed experimental setup. Here we investigate a setup that enables passing equilibrium supercurrent across an arbitrary segment of the wire without restricting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Alexey Radkevich , Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

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

A variety of compounds, for example doped paraelectrics and polar metals, exhibit both ferroelectricity and correlated electronic phenomena such as low-density superconductivity and anomalous transport. Characterizing such properties is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-19 Avraham Klein , Vladyslav Kozii , Jonathan Ruhman , Rafael M. Fernandes

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 consider quantum critical points (QCP) in which quantum fluctuations associated with charge rather than magnetic order induce unconventional metallic properties. Based on finite-T calculations on a two-dimensional extended Hubbard model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Laura Cano-Cortes , Jaime Merino , Simone Fratini

In a normal Fermi liquid, Landau's theory precludes the loss of single fermion, quantum coherence in the low energy/temperature limit. For highly anisotropic, strongly correlated metals there is no proof that this remains the case: we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 David Clarke , Steven Strong , Paul Chaikin , Ekaterina Chashechkina

It is shown that the peculiar features observed in the low-temperature phase diagrams of ZrZn_2, UGe_2, and MnSi can be understood in terms of a simple mean-field theory. The nature of the ferromagnetic transition changes from second order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick , Joerg Rollbuehler

Quantum fluctuations are pivotal in driving quantum phase transitions, exemplified by the quantum melting of Wigner crystals into Fermi liquids in electron systems. However, their impact on superconducting systems near zero temperature,…