Superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum geometry in twisted multilayer systems

P Törmä, S Peotta, BA Bernevig - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Superconductivity has been observed in moiré systems such as twisted bilayer graphene,
which host flat, dispersionless electronic bands. In parallel, theory work has discovered that …

Artificial flat band systems: from lattice models to experiments

D Leykam, A Andreanov, S Flach - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Certain lattice wave systems in translationally invariant settings have one or more spectral
bands that are strictly flat or independent of momentum in the tight binding approximation …

Revisiting flat band superconductivity: Dependence on minimal quantum metric and band touchings

KE Huhtinen, J Herzog-Arbeitman, A Chew… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
A central result in superconductivity is that flat bands, though dispersionless, can still host a
nonzero superfluid weight due to quantum geometry. We show that the derivation of the …

: Phonon bands, localized flat-band magnetism, models, and chemical analysis

Y Jiang, SB Lee, J Herzog-Arbeitman, J Yu, X Feng… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In a series of recent reports, doped lead apatite (LK-99) has been proposed as a candidate
ambient temperature and pressure superconductor. However, from both an experimental …

Topology-bounded superfluid weight in twisted bilayer graphene

F Xie, Z Song, B Lian, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
While regular flat bands are good for enhancing the density of states and hence the gap,
they are detrimental to the superfluid weight. We show that the predicted nontrivial topology …

Superfluid weight and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature of twisted bilayer graphene

A Julku, TJ Peltonen, L Liang, TT Heikkilä, P Törmä - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study superconductivity of twisted bilayer graphene with local and nonlocal attractive
interactions. We obtain the superfluid weight and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) …

Fragile topology and flat-band superconductivity in the strong-coupling regime

V Peri, ZD Song, BA Bernevig, SD Huber - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
In flat bands, superconductivity can lead to surprising transport effects. The superfluid
“mobility”, in the form of the superfluid weight D s, does not draw from the curvature of the …

Band geometry, Berry curvature, and superfluid weight

L Liang, TI Vanhala, S Peotta, T Siro, A Harju, P Törmä - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present a theory of the superfluid weight in multiband attractive Hubbard models within
the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) mean-field framework. We show how to separate the …

Classification of flat bands according to the band-crossing singularity of Bloch wave functions

JW Rhim, BJ Yang - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We show that flat bands can be categorized into two distinct classes, that is, singular and
nonsingular flat bands, by exploiting the singular behavior of their Bloch wave functions in …

“quantum geometric nesting” and solvable model flat-band systems

Z Han, J Herzog-Arbeitman, BA Bernevig, SA Kivelson - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We introduce the concept of “quantum geometric nesting”(QGN) to characterize the
idealized ordering tendencies of certain flat-band systems implicit in the geometric structure …