Superconductivity in engineered two-dimensional electron gases

Andrey V. Chubukov; Steven A. Kivelson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.174514

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Superconductivity in engineered two-dimensional electron gases

Andrey V. Chubukov, Steven A. Kivelson

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.174514 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

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 subbands with Fermi momenta kFL>kFS. On the basis of a perturbative analysis, we conclude that non-s-wave superconductivity emerges even when the bands are parabolic. We analyze the conditions that maximize Tc as a function of the distance to the metallic planes, the ratio kFL/kFS, and rs, which measures the strength of Coulomb correlations. The largest attraction is in p-wave and d-wave channels, of which p wave is typically the strongest. For rs=O(1) we estimate that the dimensionless coupling λ≈10−1, but it likely continues increasing for larger rs (where we lose theoretical control).