Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Universal suppression of superfluid weight by non-magnetic disorder in s-wave superconductors independent of quantum geometry and band dispersion

  • Alexander Lau
  • , Sebastiano Peotta
  • , Dmitry I. Pikulin
  • , Enrico Rossi
  • , Timo Hyart
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Aalto University
  • Microsoft Research Asia
  • College of William and Mary

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleScientificpeer-review

Abstract

Motivated by the experimental progress in controlling the properties of the energy bands in superconductors, significant theoretical efforts have been devoted to study the effect of the quantum geometry and the flatness of the dispersion on the superfluid weight. In conventional superconductors, where the energy bands are wide and the Fermi energy is large, the contribution due to the quantum geometry is negligible, but in the opposite limit of flat-band superconductors the superfluid weight originates purely from the quantum geometry of Bloch wave functions. Here, we study how the energy band dispersion and the quantum geometry affect the disorder-induced suppression of the superfluid weight. In particular, we consider non-magnetic disorder and s-wave superconductivity. Surprisingly, we find that the disorder-dependence of the superfluid weight is universal across a variety of models, and independent of the quantum geometry and the flatness of the dispersion. Our results suggest that a flat-band superconductor is as resilient to disorder as a conventional superconductor.

Original languageEnglish
Article number086
JournalSciPost Physics
Volume13
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2022
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The research was partially supported by the Foundation for Polish Science through the IRA Programme co-financed by EU within SG OP. A. L. acknowledges support from a Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship under grant MagTopCSL (ID 101029345). E.R. acknowledges support from DOE, Grant No. DE-SC0022245. S. P. acknowledges support from the Academy of Finland under Grants No. 330384 and No. 336369. We acknowledge the computational resources provided by the Aalto Science-IT project and the access to the computing facilities of the Interdisciplinary Center of Modeling at the University of Warsaw, Grant No. G84-4, G87-1135, and G88-1203.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Universal suppression of superfluid weight by non-magnetic disorder in s-wave superconductors independent of quantum geometry and band dispersion'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this