{"title":"Reply to \"Comment on `Towards exact solutions of superconducting $T_c$ induced by electron-phonon interaction' \"","authors":"Guo-Zhu Liu, Zhao-Kun Yang, Xiao-Yin Pan, Jing-Rong Wang, Xin Li, Hao-Fu Zhu, Jie Huang","doi":"arxiv-2408.03857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.03857","url":null,"abstract":"In a series of papers, we have proposed a non-perturbative field-theoretic\u0000approach to deal with strong electron-phonon and strong Coulomb interactions.\u0000The key ingredient of such an approach is to determine the full fermion-boson\u0000vertex corrections by solving a number of self-consistent Ward-Takahashi\u0000identities. Palle (see Phys. Rev. B 110, 026501 (2024), arXiv:2404.02918)\u0000argued that our Ward-Takahashi identities failed to include some important\u0000additional terms and thus are incorrect. We agree that our Ward-Takahashi\u0000identities have ignored some potentially important contributions and here give\u0000some remarks on the role played by the additional terms.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced Cooper Pairing via Random Matrix Phonons in Superconducting Grains","authors":"Andrey Grankin, Mohammad Hafezi, Victor Galitski","doi":"arxiv-2408.03927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.03927","url":null,"abstract":"There is rich experimental evidence that granular superconductors and\u0000superconducting films often exhibit a higher transition temperature, $T_{c}$,\u0000than that in bulk samples of the same material. This paper suggests that this\u0000enhancement hinges on random matrix phonons mediating Cooper pairing more\u0000efficiently than bulk phonons. We develop the Eliashberg theory of\u0000superconductivity in chaotic grains, calculate the random phonon spectrum and\u0000solve the Eliashberg equations numerically. Self-averaging of the effective\u0000electron-phonon coupling constant is noted, which allows us to fit the\u0000numerical data with analytical results based on a generalization of the Berry\u0000conjecture. The key insight is that the phonon density of states, and hence\u0000$T_{c}$, shows an enhancement proportional to the ratio of the perimeter and\u0000area of the grain - the Weyl law. We benchmark our results for aluminum films,\u0000and find an enhancement of $T_{c}$ of about $10%$ for a randomly-generated\u0000shape. A larger enhancement of $T_{c}$ is readily possible by optimizing grain\u0000geometries. We conclude by noticing that mesoscopic shape fluctuations in\u0000realistic granular structures should give rise to a further enhancement of\u0000global $T_{c}$ due to the formation of a percolating Josephson network.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doping evolution of the normal state magnetic excitations in pressurized La3Ni2O7","authors":"Hai-Yang Zhang, Yu-Jie Bai, Fan-Jie Kong, Xiu-Qiang Wu, Yu-Heng Xing, Ning Xu","doi":"arxiv-2408.03763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.03763","url":null,"abstract":"The doping evolution behaviors of the normal state magnetic excitations (MEs)\u0000of the nickelate La3Ni2O7 are theoretically studied in this paper. For a\u0000filling of n = 3.0 which corresponds roughly to the material which realizes the\u0000superconductivity of about 80 K under moderately high pressures above 14 GPa,\u0000the MEs exhibit a square-like pattern centered at (0,0) which originates from\u0000the intrapocket particle-hole scatterings. Furthermore, it was found that the\u0000MEs show very strong modulations on the interlayer momentum qz. With the\u0000increasing of qz, the patterns of the MEs change dramatically. In the large qz\u0000regime, they turn to be ruled by the interpocket excitation modes with\u0000significantly larger intensity which may play a vital role in the\u0000superconducting pairing. This hidden feature of the MEs was not revealed by\u0000previous studies. The established features of the MEs are found to be very\u0000robust against doping. They persist in the wide hole- or electron-doping regime\u0000around n = 3.0. However, in the heavily electron-doped regime, a Lifshitz\u0000transition will occur. Consequently, the behaviors of the MEs change\u0000qualitatively across this transition. With the absence of the hole pocket, we\u0000predict that a strong tendency toward the spin-density-wave (SDW) order will\u0000develop due to the perfect nesting between the electron and the hole pockets at\u0000n = 4.0. Thus, we have investigated the normal state behaviors of the MEs and\u0000their doping evolutions which may shed light on the mechanism of\u0000superconductivity in pressurized La3Ni2O7.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constraints on superconducting pairing in altermagnets","authors":"Debmalya Chakraborty, Annica M. Black-Schaffer","doi":"arxiv-2408.03999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.03999","url":null,"abstract":"Superconductivity in the recently discovered altermagnetic materials hosts\u0000large prospects for both fundamental physics and technological applications. In\u0000this work we show that a characteristic spin-sublattice locking in altermagnets\u0000puts severe constraints on possible superconducting pairing. In particular, we\u0000uncover that the most common form of superconductivity, uniform $s$-wave\u0000spin-singlet pairing is not possible to achieve in altermagnets. Considering an\u0000effective model for a $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave altermagnet on a square lattice, we\u0000instead find that the most likely forms of spin-singlet pairing have\u0000$d_{x^2-y^2}$- or extended $s$-wave symmetry. We also find that the simplest\u0000form of equal-spin-triplet $p$-wave pairing is not allowed, but it can only\u0000exist as a mixed-spin-triplet $p$-wave state. We verify these constraints on\u0000pairing within an interaction-induced model of altermagnetism, where we also\u0000establish their validity for finite-momentum pairing. Additionally we discuss\u0000the possible pairing symmetries for odd-frequency superconducting pairing. Due\u0000to the generality of our results, they are applicable to both intrinsic\u0000superconductivity and proximity-induced superconductivity in\u0000altermagnet-superconductor hybrid junctions.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. J. Elmers, O. Tkach, Y. Lytvynenko, P. Yogi, M. Schmitt, D. Biswas, J. Liu, S. V. Chernov, M. Hoesch, D. Kutnyakhov, N. Wind, L. Wenthaus, M. Scholz, K. Rossnagel, A. Gloskovskii, C. Schlueter, A. Winkelmann, A. -A. Haghighirad, T. -L. Lee, M. Sing, R. Claessen, M. Le Tacon, J. Demsar, G. Schonhense, O. Fedchenko
{"title":"Chirality in the Kagome Metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$","authors":"H. J. Elmers, O. Tkach, Y. Lytvynenko, P. Yogi, M. Schmitt, D. Biswas, J. Liu, S. V. Chernov, M. Hoesch, D. Kutnyakhov, N. Wind, L. Wenthaus, M. Scholz, K. Rossnagel, A. Gloskovskii, C. Schlueter, A. Winkelmann, A. -A. Haghighirad, T. -L. Lee, M. Sing, R. Claessen, M. Le Tacon, J. Demsar, G. Schonhense, O. Fedchenko","doi":"arxiv-2408.03750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.03750","url":null,"abstract":"Using x-ray photoelectron diffraction (XPD) and angle-resolved photoemission\u0000spectroscopy, we study photoemission intensity changes related to changes in\u0000the geometric and electronic structure in the kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ upon\u0000transition to an unconventional charge density wave (CDW) state. The XPD\u0000patterns reveal the presence of a chiral atomic structure in the CDW phase.\u0000Furthermore, using circularly polarized x-rays, we have found a pronounced\u0000non-trivial circular dichroism in the angular distribution of the valence band\u0000photoemission in the CDW phase, indicating a chirality of the electronic\u0000structure. This observation is consistent with the proposed orbital loop\u0000current order. In view of a negligible spontaneous Kerr signal in recent\u0000magneto-optical studies, the results suggest an antiferromagnetic coupling of\u0000the orbital magnetic moments along the $c$-axis. While the inherent structural\u0000chirality may also induce circular dichroism, the observed asymmetry values\u0000seem to be too large in the case of the weak structural distortions caused by\u0000the CDW.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanbin Deng, Guowei Liu, Z. Guguchia, Tianyu Yang, Jinjin Liu, Zhiwei Wang, Yaofeng Xie, Sen Shao, Haiyang Ma, William Liège, Frédéric Bourdarot, Xiao-Yu Yan, Hailang Qin, C. Mielke III, R. Khasanov, H. Luetkens, Xianxin Wu, Guoqing Chang, Jianpeng Liu, Morten Holm Christensen, Andreas Kreisel, Brian Møller Andersen, Wen Huang, Yue Zhao, Philippe Bourges, Yugui Yao, Pengcheng Dai, Jia-Xin Yin
{"title":"Evidence chain for time-reversal symmetry-breaking kagome superconductivity","authors":"Hanbin Deng, Guowei Liu, Z. Guguchia, Tianyu Yang, Jinjin Liu, Zhiwei Wang, Yaofeng Xie, Sen Shao, Haiyang Ma, William Liège, Frédéric Bourdarot, Xiao-Yu Yan, Hailang Qin, C. Mielke III, R. Khasanov, H. Luetkens, Xianxin Wu, Guoqing Chang, Jianpeng Liu, Morten Holm Christensen, Andreas Kreisel, Brian Møller Andersen, Wen Huang, Yue Zhao, Philippe Bourges, Yugui Yao, Pengcheng Dai, Jia-Xin Yin","doi":"arxiv-2408.02898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.02898","url":null,"abstract":"Superconductivity and magnetism are antagonistic quantum matter, while their\u0000intertwining has long been considered in frustrated-lattice systems1-3. In this\u0000work, we utilize scanning tunneling microscopy and muon spin resonance to\u0000discover time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity in kagome metal\u0000Cs(V,Ta)3Sb5, where the Cooper pairing exhibits magnetism and is modulated by\u0000it. In the magnetic channel, we observe spontaneous internal magnetism in a\u0000full-gap superconducting state. Under perturbations of inverse magnetic fields,\u0000we detect a time-reversal asymmetrical interference of Bogoliubov\u0000quasi-particles at a circular vector. At this vector, the pairing gap\u0000spontaneously modulates, which is distinct from pair density waves occurring at\u0000a point vector and consistent with the theoretical proposal of unusual\u0000interference effect under time-reversal symmetry-breaking. The correlation\u0000between internal magnetism, Bogoliubov quasi-particles, and pairing modulation\u0000provides a chain of experimental clues for time-reversal symmetry-breaking\u0000kagome superconductivity.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanbin Deng, Hailang Qin, Guowei Liu, Tianyu Yang, Ruiqing Fu, Zhongyi Zhang, Xianxin Wu, Zhiwei Wang, Youguo Shi, Jinjin Liu, Hongxiong Liu, Xiao-Yu Yan, Wei Song, Xitong Xu, Yuanyuan Zhao, Mingsheng Yi, Gang Xu, Hendrik Hohmann, Sofie Castro Holbæk, Matteo Dürrnage, Sen Zhou, Guoqing Chang, Yugui Yao, Qianghua Wang, Zurab Guguchia, Titus Neupert, Ronny Thomale, Mark H. Fischer, Jia-Xin Yin
{"title":"Chiral kagome superconductivity modulations with residual Fermi arcs in KV3Sb5 and CsV3Sb5","authors":"Hanbin Deng, Hailang Qin, Guowei Liu, Tianyu Yang, Ruiqing Fu, Zhongyi Zhang, Xianxin Wu, Zhiwei Wang, Youguo Shi, Jinjin Liu, Hongxiong Liu, Xiao-Yu Yan, Wei Song, Xitong Xu, Yuanyuan Zhao, Mingsheng Yi, Gang Xu, Hendrik Hohmann, Sofie Castro Holbæk, Matteo Dürrnage, Sen Zhou, Guoqing Chang, Yugui Yao, Qianghua Wang, Zurab Guguchia, Titus Neupert, Ronny Thomale, Mark H. Fischer, Jia-Xin Yin","doi":"arxiv-2408.02896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.02896","url":null,"abstract":"Superconductivity involving finite momentum pairing can lead to spatial gap\u0000and pair density modulations, as well as Bogoliubov Fermi states within the\u0000superconducting gap. However, the experimental realization of their intertwined\u0000relations has been challenging. Here, we detect chiral kagome superconductivity\u0000modulations with residual Fermi arcs in KV3Sb5 and CsV3Sb5 by normal and\u0000Josephson scanning tunneling microscopy down to 30mK with resolved electronic\u0000energy difference at microelectronvolt level. We observe a U-shaped\u0000superconducting gap with flat residual in-gap states. This gap exhibits chiral\u00002 by 2 spatial modulations with magnetic field tunable chirality, which align\u0000with the chiral 2 by 2 pair density modulations observed through Josephson\u0000tunneling. These findings demonstrate a chiral pair density wave (PDW) that\u0000breaks time-reversal symmetry. Quasiparticle interference imaging of the in-gap\u0000zero-energy states reveals segmented arcs, with high-temperature data linking\u0000them to parts of the reconstructed V d-orbital states within the charge order.\u0000The detected residual Fermi arcs can be explained by the partial suppression of\u0000these d-orbital states through an interorbital 2 by 2 PDW and thus serve as\u0000candidate Bogoliubov Fermi states. Additionally, we differentiate the observed\u0000PDW order from impurity-induced gap modulations. Our observations not only\u0000uncover a chiral PDW order with orbital-selectivity, but also illuminate the\u0000fundamental space-momentum correspondence inherent in finite momentum paired\u0000superconductivity.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Superconducting gap modulations: are they from pair density waves or pair-breaking scattering?","authors":"Jia-Xin Yin, Qianghua Wang","doi":"arxiv-2408.02890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.02890","url":null,"abstract":"In his seminal work published in Acta Physica Sinica in 1965, Yu Lu pointed\u0000out that the superconducting gap exhibits weak modulations near the\u0000pair-breaking magnetic impurity in a superconductor. In the past ten years, a\u0000series of high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy works reported weak\u0000superconducting gap modulations in certain superconductors and explained these\u0000phenomena as pair density waves. In line with Yu's discovery, Lee DH et al.\u0000pointed out that in many cases, the interference effect of pair-breaking\u0000scattering can also lead to superconducting gap modulations in space. We will\u0000discuss the distinction and unification of these two kinds of mechanisms, as\u0000well as their relevance to recent experimental observations.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strong enhancement of superconductivity via engineered dielectric environment","authors":"Krzysztof Kempa, Michael J. Naughton","doi":"arxiv-2408.03288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.03288","url":null,"abstract":"We recently showed that strong enhancement of superconductivity can occur in\u0000systems with a resonant anti-shielding effect wherein the nonlocal dielectric\u0000function of the environment vanishes. This effect is universal, since it relies\u0000on the fact that Cooper pairs, regardless of the pairing mechanism, are simply\u0000charges that can be affected by external charges / fields induced in an\u0000engineered dielectric environment. In our earlier work, we proposed a composite\u0000system containing a superconductor and a topological insulator that satisfies\u0000the stringent conditions for the anti-shielding. Here, we propose a\u0000superlattice system containing a metal-organic framework medium that also\u0000satisfies these conditions, but with the effect even stronger and more\u0000controllable. Our estimates show that ambient temperature and pressure\u0000operation could be achievable in this configuration with e.g. MgB2, or even\u0000with cuprate superconductors.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhongjin Zhang, Anatoly Kuklov, Nikolay Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov
{"title":"Superconductivity of bipolarons from quadratic electron-phonon interaction","authors":"Zhongjin Zhang, Anatoly Kuklov, Nikolay Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov","doi":"arxiv-2408.03266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.03266","url":null,"abstract":"In systems with linear electron-phonon interaction (EPI), bound states of\u0000polarons, or bipolarons, form by gaining energy from the lattice deformation.\u0000The quadratic EPI case is fundamentally different: bipolarons form because\u0000electrons lose less energy when the total charge density is \"compacted\". As the\u0000coupling constant is increased, the bipolarons first appear as extended (but\u0000finite radius) soliton-type states. They subsequently decrease in radius until\u0000their size reaches the inter-atomic scale. We present the first numerically\u0000exact solution of the bipolaron problem from quadratic EPI in the presence of\u0000both on-site Hubbard and long-range Coulomb repulsion, and compute estimates of\u0000the largest superconducting transition temperature within the bipolaron\u0000mechanism. We find that $T_c/Omega$ ratios, where $Omega$ is the optical\u0000phonon frequency, can be several times larger than what one may expect from the\u0000linear EPI provided the phonon frequency is increased by orders of magnitude on\u0000occupied sites. Electron-electron repulsion can be tolerated at the expense of\u0000stronger EPI and the most detrimental effect comes from the Coulomb potential\u0000because it easily eliminates extended soliton states.","PeriodicalId":501069,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Superconductivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}