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.
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 language | English |
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Journal | arXiv.org |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 1 Mar 2022 |
MoE publication type | B1 Article in a scientific magazine |
Keywords
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons