High-temperature surface superconductivity in topological flat-band systems

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2011

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Physical Review B, Volume 83, issue 22, pp. 1-4

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We show that the topologically protected flat band emerging on a surface of a nodal fermionic system promotes the surface superconductivity due to an infinitely large density of states associated with the flat band. The critical temperature depends linearly on the pairing interaction and can be thus considerably higher than the exponentially small bulk critical temperature. We discuss an example of surface superconductivity in multilayered graphene with rhombohedral stacking.

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Kopnin, N B, Heikkilä, T T & Volovik, G E 2011, ' High-temperature surface superconductivity in topological flat-band systems ', Physical Review B, vol. 83, no. 22, 220503, pp. 1-4 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.220503