Bounds on the Superconducting Transition Temperature: Applications to Twisted Bilayer Graphene and Cold Atoms
Tamaghna Hazra, Nishchhal Verma, Mohit Randeria
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031049 · Physical Review X
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Abstract
Understanding the material parameters that control the superconducting transition temperature Tc is a problem of fundamental importance. In many novel superconductors phase fluctuations determine Tc, rather than the collapse of the pairing amplitude. We derive rigorous upper bounds on the superfluid phase stiffness for multiband systems, valid in any dimension. This in turn leads to an upper bound on Tc in two dimensions, which holds irrespective of pairing mechanism, interaction strength, or order-parameter symmetry. Our bound is particularly useful for the strongly correlated regime of low-density and narrow-band systems, where mean-field theory fails. For a simple parabolic band in 2D with Fermi energy EF, we find that kBTc≤EF/8, an exact result that has direct implications for the 2D BCS-BEC crossover in ultracold Fermi gases. Applying our multiband bound to magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, we find that band structure results constrain the maximum Tc to be close to the experimentally observed value. Finally, we discuss the question of deriving rigorous upper bounds on Tc in 3D.
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