journal article·2023-05-02

Sweeping across the BCS-BEC crossover, reentrant, and hidden quantum phase transitions in two-band superconductors by tuning the valence and conduction bands

Giovanni Midei, Andrea Perali

Physical Review B· Volume 107· Issue 18
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Abstract

Two-band electronic structures with a valence and a conduction band separated by a tunable energy gap and with pairing of electrons in different channels can be relevant to investigate the properties of two-dimensional multiband superconductors and electron-hole superfluids, such as monolayer FeSe, recently discovered superconducting bilayer graphene, and double-bilayer graphene electron-hole systems. This electronic configuration also allows us to study the coexistence of superconductivity and charge-density waves in connection with underdoped cuprates and transition metal dichalcogenides. By using a mean-field approach to study the system mentioned above, we have obtained numerical results for superconducting gaps, chemical potential, condensate fractions, coherence lengths, and superconducting mean-field critical temperature, considering a tunable band gap and different fillings of the conduction band, for a parametric choice of the pairing interactions. By tuning these quantities, the electrons redistribute among valence and conduction band in a complex way, leading to a new physics with respect to single-band superconductors, such as density-induced and band-selective BCS-BEC crossover, quantum phase transitions, and hidden criticalities. At finite temperature, this phenomenon is also responsible for the nonmonotonic behavior of the superconducting gaps resulting in a superconducting-normal state reentrant transition, without the need of disorder or magnetic effects.
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