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Dynamic screening-driven superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas

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Abstract

We establish the ultra-low temperature phase diagram of a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in the dense limit where the random phase approximation (RPA) is controlled. Such a 2D Fermi gas at the RPA level cannot be a Kohn-Luttinger superconductor due to the absence of emergent attractive interaction from the back-scattering channel. Nevertheless, we develop a Cooper-pair linear response approach and identify a series of exotic superconductivity with the ultra-low superconducting temperature of 10-200~10-10 times Fermi temperature. Our results show that dynamic screening-driven superconductivity exists in the 2D electron gas, where the long-range character of Coulomb interaction is essential, and indicate a broad reconsideration of the widely used static approximation in the context of 2D superconductivity from repulsive interactions.

Publication: P. Hou, X. Cai, T. Wang, Y. Deng, N. V. Prokof'ev, B. V. Svistunov, and K. Chen. "Dynamic screening-driven superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas." paper in preparation.

Presenters

  • Pengcheng Hou

    University of Science and Technology of China

Authors

  • Pengcheng Hou

    University of Science and Technology of China

  • Xiansheng Cai

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Tao Wang

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Youjin Deng

    University of Science and Technology of China & Minjiang University, University of Science and Technology of China

  • Nikolay Prokof'ev

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Boris Svistunov

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Kun Chen

    Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Quantum Physics