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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 32, Issue 36, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab8b9d
Keywords
graphene; superconductivity; strain engineering; flat bands; BCS theory
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- Emil Aaltonen foundation
- Academy of Finland [317118]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [317118, 317118] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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In the search of high-temperature superconductivity one option is to focus on increasing the density of electronic states. Here we study both the normal ands-wave superconducting state properties of periodically strained graphene, which exhibits approximate flat bands with a high density of states, with the flatness tunable by the strain profile. We generalize earlier results regarding a one-dimensional harmonic strain to arbitrary periodic strain fields, and further extend the results by calculating the superfluid weight and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperatureT(BKT)to determine the true transition point. By numerically solving the self-consistency equation, we find a strongly inhomogeneous superconducting order parameter, similarly to twisted bilayer graphene. In the flat-band regime the order parameter magnitude, critical chemical potential, critical temperature, superfluid weight, and BKT transition temperature are all approximately linear in the interaction strength, which suggests that high-temperature superconductivity might be feasible in this system. We especially show that by using realistic strain strengthsT(BKT)can be made much larger than in twisted bilayer graphene, if using similar interaction strengths. We also calculate properties such as the local density of states that could serve as experimental fingerprints for the presented model.
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