Quantum breakdown of superconductivity in low-dimensional materials

B Sacépé, M Feigel'man, TM Klapwijk - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
In order to understand the emergence of superconductivity it is useful to study the reverse
process and identify the various pathways that lead to its destruction. One way is to increase …

Bose-Einstein condensation in quantum magnets

V Zapf, M Jaime, CD Batista - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
This article reviews experimental and theoretical work on Bose-Einstein condensation in
quantum magnets. These magnets are natural realizations of gases of interacting bosons …

The Higgs mode in disordered superconductors close to a quantum phase transition

D Sherman, US Pracht, B Gorshunov, S Poran… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The concept of mass generation by means of the Higgs mechanism was strongly inspired by
earlier works on the Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect in superconductors. In quantum field …

Remarkable effects of disorder on superconductivity of single atomic layers of lead on silicon

C Brun, T Cren, V Cherkez, F Debontridder, S Pons… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
In bulk materials, superconductivity is remarkably robust with respect to non-magnetic
disorder. In the two-dimensional limit, however, disorder and electron correlations both tend …

Sign-problem-free fermionic quantum Monte Carlo: Developments and applications

ZX Li, H Yao - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Reliable simulations of correlated quantum systems, including high-temperature
superconductors and frustrated magnets, are increasingly desired nowadays to further our …

Review of 2D superconductivity: the ultimate case of epitaxial monolayers

C Brun, T Cren, D Roditchev - Superconductor Science and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this review is to focus from an experimental point-of-view on the new
physical properties of some of the thinnest superconducting films that can be fabricated and …

Multiple quantum criticality in a two-dimensional superconductor

J Biscaras, N Bergeal, S Hurand, C Feuillet-Palma… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
The diverse phenomena associated with the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) that
occurs at oxide interfaces include, among others, exceptional carrier mobilities, magnetism …

Fermi surface and pseudogap evolution in a cuprate superconductor

Y He, Y Yin, M Zech, A Soumyanarayanan, MM Yee… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The unclear relationship between cuprate superconductivity and the pseudogap state
remains an impediment to understanding the high transition temperature (T c) …

Direct evidence for Cooper pairing without a spectral gap in a disordered superconductor above Tc

KM Bastiaans, D Chatzopoulos, JF Ge, D Cho… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The idea that preformed Cooper pairs could exist in a superconductor at temperatures
higher than its zero-resistance critical temperature (T c) has been explored for …

Emergence of coherence in the charge-density wave state of 2H-NbSe2

U Chatterjee, J Zhao, M Iavarone, R Di Capua… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
A charge-density wave (CDW) state has a broken symmetry described by a complex order
parameter with an amplitude and a phase. The conventional view, based on clean, weak …