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Recent thermal conductivity measurements on $UPt_3$ single crystals by Lussier et al. indicate the existence of a strong b--c anisotropy in the superconducting state. We calculate the thermal conductivity in various unconventional candidate…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Fledderjohann , P. J. Hirschfeld

Superfluidity or superconductivity with mismatched Fermi momenta appears in many systems such as charge neutral dense quark matter, asymmetric nuclear matter, and in imbalanced cold atomic gases. The mismatch plays the role of breaking the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mei Huang

Epitaxial thin films of the heavy fermion superconductor UNi2Al3 with Tc{max}=0.98K were investigated. The transition temperature Tc depends on the current direction which can be related to superconducting gaps opening at different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Jourdan , A. Zakharov , M. Foerster , H. Adrian

We study thermal and electrical transport in metals and superconductors near a quantum phase transition where antiferromagnetic order disappears. The same theory can also be applied to quantum phase transitions involving the loss of certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-07 Shubhayu Chatterjee , Subir Sachdev , Andreas Eberlein

In this paper, we examine in a unified fashion dissipative transport in strongly correlated systems. We thereby demonstrate the connection between "bad metals" (such as the high temperature superconductors) and "perfect fluids" (such as the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-16 Hao Guo , Dan Wulin , Chih-Chun Chien , K. Levin

We calculate electronic energy transport in inhomogeneous superconductors using a fully self-consistent non-equilibrium quasiclassical Keldysh approach. We develop a general theory and apply it a superconductor with an order parameter that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-10 Caroline Richard , Anton B. Vorontsov

The formation of electron pairs is a prerequisite of superconductivity. The fermionic nature of electrons yields four classes of superconducting correlations with definite symmetry in spin, space and time. Here, we suggest double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Björn Sothmann , Stephan Weiss , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We present fermi liquid expressions for the low temperature behavior of the superfluid stiffness, explain why they differ from those suggested recently by Lee and Wen, and discuss their applicability to data on high-$T_c$ superconductors.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 A. J. Millis , S. M. Grivin , L. B. Ioffe , A. I. Larkin

Motivated by the experimental detection of superconductivity in the low-carrier density half-Heusler compound YPtBi, we study the pairing instabilities of three-dimensional strongly spin-orbit coupled semimetals with a quadratic band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-03 Lucile Savary , Jonathan Ruhman , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu , Patrick A. Lee

In quantum critical metals, a plethora of different non-Fermi liquids arises depending on the nature of critical fluctuations coupled to Fermi surfaces. In this paper, we classify non-Fermi liquids that arise from q=0 critical fluctuations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Shubham Kukreja , Dawson M. Willerton , Sung-Sik Lee

We present a review of theoretical investigations into the Kohn-Luttinger nonphonon superconductivity mechanism in various 3D and 2D repulsive electron systems described by the Fermi-gas, Hubbard, and Shubin-Vonsovsky models. Phase diagrams…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-26 M. Yu. Kagan , V. V. Val'kov , V. A. Mitskan , M. M. Korovushkin

Fermi liquid theory is used to generate the Ginzburg-Landau free energy functionals for unconventional superconductors belonging to various representations. The parameters defining the GL functional depend on Fermi surface anisotropy,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-11 J. A. Sauls

The orthorhombic uranium dichalcogenide UTe$_2$ displays superconductivity below 1.7 K, with the anomalous feature of retaining 50$\%$ of normal state (ungapped) carriers, according to heat capacity data from two groups. Incoherent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-09 Alexander B. Shick , Warren E. Pickett

We discuss the weak-coupling BCS theory of the heavy fermion superconductor UPt_3, accounting for that system's anisotropic, multisheeted Fermi surface by expanding the order parameter and pair potential in terms of appropriate basis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Haran , P. J. Hirschfeld , M. Sigrist

We introduce and solve a model of interacting electrons and phonons that is a natural generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev-model and that becomes superconducting at low temperatures. In the normal state two Non-Fermi liquid fixed points…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Ilya Esterlis , Jörg Schmalian

We investigate models of electrons in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev class with random and all-to-all electron hopping, electron spin exchange, and Cooper-pair hopping. An attractive on-site interaction between electrons leads to superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-26 Chenyuan Li , Subir Sachdev , Darshan G. Joshi

Unconventional superconductivity remains one of the central unsolved problems in quantum materials, and revealing its connection to the normal state is widely believed to be key to uncovering the pairing mechanism. Previous efforts have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuchen Wu , Yiwen Liu , Wanyue Lin , Zohar Nussinov , Sheng Ran

A long standing mystery of fundamental importance in correlated electron physics is to understand strange non-Fermi liquid metals that are seen in diverse quantum materials. A striking experimental feature of these metals is a resistivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-19 Dominic V. Else , T. Senthil

Superconductivity is a quantum phenomena arising, in its simplest form, from pairing of fermions with opposite spin into a state with zero net momentum. Whether superconductivity can occur in fermionic systems with unequal number of two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Mayaffre , S. Kramer , M. Horvatić , C. Berthier , K. Miyagawa , K. Kanoda , V. F. Mitrović

We show that generic U(1) superfluids with a U(1)^3 anomaly feature universal anomalous transport at low temperature. This universal behavior had been encountered before for a class holographic models by performing explicit computations:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-23 Luis Melgar