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Employing unbiased sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo, we investigate the effects of long-range Coulomb forces on BEC of bipolarons using a model of bond phonon-modulated electron hopping. In absence of long-range repulsion, this model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-19 J. Sous , C. Zhang , M. Berciu , D. R. Reichman , B. V. Svistunov , N. V. Prokof'ev , A. J. Millis

We study a mechanism to induce superconductivity in atomically thin semiconductors where excitons mediate an effective attraction between electrons. Our model includes interaction effects beyond the paradigm of phonon-mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Jonas von Milczewski , Xin Chen , Atac Imamoglu , Richard Schmidt

Interacting Bose-Fermi systems play a central role in condensed matter physics. Here, we analyze a novel Bose-Fermi mixture formed by a cavity exciton-polariton condensate interacting with a two-dimensional electron system. We show that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-17 Ovidiu Cotleţ , Sina Zeytinoǧlu , Manfred Sigrist , Eugene Demler , Ataç Imamoǧlu

Superfluidity---the suppression of scattering in a quantum fluid at velocities below a critical value---is one of the most striking manifestations of the collective behaviour typical of Bose-Einstein condensates. This phenomenon, akin to…

Bose-Fermi systems such as mixtures of electrons with excitons or exciton-polaritons are extensively discussed as candidates to host a variety of intriguing phenomena, including polaron formation, drag effects, supersolidity, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Andrey S. Plyashechnik , Alexey A. Sokolik , Nina S. Voronova , Yurii E. Lozovik

We present results of first principle numerical simulations of the Bose one-component plasma, i.e., a Bose gas with pairwise Coulomb interactions among particles and a uniform neutralizing background. We compute the superconducting…

A Bose--Einstein condensate of exciton polaritons coexisting with a Fermi gas of electrons has been recently proposed as a promising system for realisation of room-temperature superconductivity [Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 106402 (2010)]. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 F. P. Laussy , T. Taylor , I. A. Shelykh , A. V. Kavokin

We investigate superlight pairing of bipolarons driven by electron-phonon interactions (EPIs) in face-center-cubic (FCC) and body-center-cubic (BCC) lattices using a continuous-time path-integral quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-11 G. D. Adebanjo , J. P. Hague , P. E. Kornilovitch

The seminal work by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer taken further by Eliashberg to the intermediate coupling solved the problem of conventional superconductors about half a century ago. The Froehlich and Jahn-Teller electron-phonon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Alexandrov

It has been recently shown that the competition between unscreened Coulomb and Fr\"{o}hlich electron-phonon interactions can be described in terms of a short-range spin exchange $J_p$ and an effective on-site interaction $\tilde{U}$ in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-02 G. Sica , J. H. Samson , A. S. Alexandrov

By making periodic thru-holes in a suspended film, the phonon system can be modified. Motivated by the BCS theory, the technique -- so-called phonon engineering -- was applied to a metallic niobium sheet. It was found that its electrical…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 N. Zen

While it is known that the amplification of the superconducting critical temperature Tc is possible in a system of multiple electronic components in comparison with a single component system, many different road maps for room temperature…

We introduce a generic Froehlich-Coulomb model of the oxides, which also includes infinite on-site (Hubbard) repulsion, and describe a simple analytical method of solving the multi-polaron problem in complex lattice structures. Two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Alexandrov , P. E. Kornilovitch

We analyze the transition temperature $T_c$ of bipolaronic superconductivity in a bond Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (bond-SSH) model -- also known as a bond Peierls model -- where the electron hoppings are modulated by bond phonons. Using a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-14 Kyung-Su Kim , Zhaoyu Han , John Sous

Scanning tunneling spectroscopies in the subKelvin temperature range were performed on superconducting Silicon epilayers doped with Boron in the atomic percent range. The resulting local differential conductance behaved as expected for a…

When the electron-phonon coupling is quadratic in the phonon coordinates, electrons can pair to form bipolarons due to phonon zero-point fluctuations, a purely quantum effect. We study superconductivity originating from this pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-18 Zhaoyu Han , Steven A. Kivelson , Pavel A. Volkov

We develop a strong-coupling theory of Bose-Einstein condensate-mediated superconductivity in a hybrid system, which consists of a two-dimensional electron gas with either (i) parabolic spectrum or (ii) relativistic Dirac spectrum in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-25 Meng Sun , A. V. Parafilo , V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

Light-mass bipolarons in off-diagonally coupled electron-phonon systems provide a potential route to bipolaronic high-Tc superconductivity. While there has been numerical progress in the physically relevant limit of slow phonons, more…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-28 Martin Grundner , Tizian Blatz , John Sous , Ulrich Schollwöck , Sebastian Paeckel

Superconductivity in low carrier density metals challenges the conventional electron-phonon theory due to the absence of retardation required to overcome Coulomb repulsion. In quantum critical polar metals, the Coulomb repulsion is heavily…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-09 Pavel A. Volkov , Premala Chandra , Piers Coleman

The effective attractive interaction between electrons, mediated by electron-phonon coupling, is a well-established mechanism of conventional superconductivity. In metals exhibiting a Fermi surface, the critical temperature of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-03 R. Ojajärvi , T. Hyart , M. Silaev , T. T. Heikkilä