Enhanced amplitude for superconductivity due to spectrum-wide wave function criticality in quasiperiodic and power-law random hopping models

X Zhang, MS Foster - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study the interplay of superconductivity and a wide spectrum of critical (multifractal) wave
functions (“spectrum-wide quantum criticality,” SWQC) in the one-dimensional Aubry-André …

Enhancement of superconductivity in a dirty marginal Fermi liquid

TC Wu, PA Lee, MS Foster - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study superconductivity in a two-dimensional, disordered marginal Fermi liquid. At the
semiclassical level, the transition temperature T c is strongly suppressed because marginal …

Optimal inhomogeneity for superconductivity: Finite-size studies

WF Tsai, H Yao, A Läuchli, SA Kivelson - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2008 - APS
We report the results of exact-diagonalization studies of Hubbard models on a 4× 4 square
lattice with periodic boundary conditions and various degrees and patterns of …

Glass-induced enhancement of superconducting : Pairing via dissipative mediators

C Setty - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
With substantial evidence of glassy behavior in the phase diagram of high-T c
superconductors and its coexistence with superconductivity, we attempt to answer the …

Determinant quantum Monte Carlo study of the enhancement of -wave pairing by charge inhomogeneity

R Mondaini, T Ying, T Paiva, RT Scalettar - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2012 - APS
Striped phases, in which spin, charge, and pairing correlations vary inhomogeneously in the
CuO 2 planes, are a known experimental feature of cuprate superconductors, and are also …

Dynamic Cluster Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of a Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model<? format?> with Stripelike Charge-Density-Wave Modulations: Interplay …

TA Maier, G Alvarez, M Summers, TC Schulthess - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Using dynamic cluster quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we study the superconducting
behavior of a 1/8 doped two-dimensional Hubbard model with imposed unidirectional …

Raising the critical temperature by disorder in unconventional superconductors mediated by spin fluctuations

AT Rømer, PJ Hirschfeld, BM Andersen - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We propose a mechanism whereby disorder can enhance the transition temperature T c of
an unconventional superconductor with pairing driven by exchange of spin fluctuations. The …

Contractor-renormalization study of Hubbard plaquette clusters

S Baruch, D Orgad - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
We implement the contractor-renormalization method to study the checkerboard Hubbard
model on various finite-size clusters as function of the inter-plaquette hopping t′ and the on …

Superconductivity in engineered two-dimensional electron gases

AV Chubukov, SA Kivelson - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We consider Kohn-Luttinger mechanism for superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron
gas confined to a narrow well between two grounded metallic planes with two occupied …

Disordered two-dimensional superconductors: Roles of temperature and interaction strength

F Mondaini, T Paiva, RR Dos Santos… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
We have considered the half-filled disordered attractive Hubbard model on a square lattice,
in which the on-site attraction is switched off on a fraction f of sites, while keeping a finite U …