Meissner effect and supeconductivity. image courtesy of wikipedia

We invite you to the next Solid State Physics seminar.

When: 17 December, Wednesday at 16:30

Where: Room Beijing-1, Moscow School of Management

Title:  Stability of Fermion Clusters: Application to Cold Atoms and Unconventional Superconductivity

Speaker:  Dr. Pavel Kornilovitch, Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Abstract:

Quantum mechanical lattice models with finite-range attraction between particles have applications for unconventional superconductivity and cold atoms in optical lattices. First, arguments in favor of the existence of short-range attractive correlations in high-temperature superconductors are reviewed. Then, a specific two-dimensional model with nearest-neighbor attraction is introduced and solved for two and three fermions. The bound cluster of three fermions with total spin S = 3/2 is found to be Borromean: it exists in the absence of bound pairs. In the S = 1/2 sector, a parameter region is identified where a fermion pair repels a third fermion, which indicates stability of pairs against clustering. The paramagnetic to ferromagnetic (Nagaoka) transition is predicted in the limit of strong attraction. Finally, an anisotropic three-dimensional model is considered. The pair condensation temperature is found to be maximal at intermediate interlayer hopping.  A phase diagram is proposed and its relevance to high-temperature superconductors is discussed.

Website of the Solid State Physics Seminar: https://www.skoltech.ru/research/en/events/solid-state-physics-seminar/