Quantum Geometric Kohn-Luttinger Superconductivity

Gal Shavit; Jason Alicea

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.176001

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Quantum Geometric Kohn-Luttinger Superconductivity

Gal Shavit, Jason Alicea

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.176001 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

Coulomb repulsion can, counterintuitively, mediate Cooper pairing via the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. However, it is commonly believed that observability of the effect requires special circumstances, e.g., vicinity of the Fermi level to Van Hove singularities, significant lattice-induced band distortions, or nontrivial Fermi surface topologies. Here, we establish that quantum geometric properties of the constituent electrons can dramatically promote pairing from repulsion via dependence of screening on the quantum metric. We demonstrate quantum-geometry-enhanced superconductivity in two microscopic models with tunable quantum geometry, highlighting the crucial roles of quantum metric anisotropy and inhomogeneity. Our analysis provides an experimentally accessible figure of merit for the importance of quantum geometry to inducing unconventional superconductivity, indicating its relevance to graphene multilayers.