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V. R. Shaginyan

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Some features of high-temperature superconductivity on flat bands

In this letter, we examine how the presence of flat band leads to the formation of a high-temperature superconductor even in the case of repulsive pairing interactions. We also show that in the case of flat bands, the high-temperature superconducting state deforms the flat band, tilting it and making the effective mass finite. As a result, neither the superfluid weight nor the supercurrent disappear. Our results are in good agreement with experimental data.

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Comment on: "The future of the correlated electron problem", arXiv:2010.00584

In our comment we show that some of the very difficult problems have been successfully solved. We have to focus on the resolved problems, since the authors claims: Our hope, however, is that the topics we have presented will provide inspiration for others working in this field and motivation for the idea that significant progress can be made on very hard problems if we focus our collective energies. Thus, there is no need to mislead potential researchers.

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Comment on paper: Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry, Nature 614, 440 (2023)

We demonstrate that an absolutely flat band retains the superconducting state at $T_c\to 0$. When $T_c>0$ the flat band disappears, since it must be modified by the superconducting state. Thus, a number of the results on ultra-strong coupling superconductivity in flat band considered in the article ("Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry", Nature 614, 440 (2023)) were predicted and explained many years ago. One has to take into account that at $T_c>0$ the flat band distorts, becoming tilted. As a result, the charge carriers' velocity $v_F\propto T_c$ becomes finite, rather than being extremely slow, as it is stated in the article. Thus, the statement "the charge carriers' group velocity $v_ F$ is extremely slow" is incorrect and leads the authors to the conceptional misunderstanding, confusing the reader.

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Scaling behavior of superconductors

In our brief review, we will consider the general universal scaling properties of superconductors. The physics of superconductors, represented by both conventional and unconventional superconductors, has been the main topic of high-$T_c$ superconductor physics for over thirty years, revealing some of the properties of high-$T_c$ (or unconventional) superconductors. Scaling relationships lead to the identification of fundamental laws of nature and reveal the essence of superconductor physics. Advances in experimental technology allow us to collect important data, which in turn allow us to make definitive statements about the physical processes underlying strongly correlated Fermi systems. Basing on this observation, we analyze experimental facts that reveal the general scaling properties of both high-$T_c$ and ordinary superconductors, and theoretically explain that the Homes' law $ρ_{s0}= (1/2πλ_D)^2= T_cσ(T_c)$ is applicable to the both types of superconductors. Here $ρ_{s0}$ is the superconducting electron density, $λ_D$ is the zero-$T$ penetration depth, $σ$ is the normal state conductivity, $T$ is temperature and $T_c$ is the temperature of superconducting phase transition. Overall, these scaling relationships lead to the identification of fundamental laws of nature and reveal the essence of superconductor physics. All these observations support the theory of fermion condensation. Our theoretical results agree well with a body of diverse and seemingly unrelated experimental facts. They show that the topological fermion condensation quantum phase transition, generating flat bands, is an intrinsic property of strongly correlated Fermi systems and can be considered as a universal agent explaining their basic physics.

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Common behavior of the scaled condensation energy for both high-$T_c$ and conventional superconductors

We analyze the scaling of the condensation energy $E_Δ$ divided by $γ$, $E_Δ/γ\simeq N(0)Δ_1^2/γ$, of both conventional superconductors and unconventional high-$T_c$ one, where $N(0)$ is the density of states, $Δ_1$ is the maximum value of the superconducting gap and $γ$ is the Sommerfeld coefficient. For the first time, we show that the universal scaling of $E_Δ/γ\propto T_c^2$ applies equally to conventional superconductors and unconventional high-$T_c$ ones. Our consideration is based on both facts: Bogoliubov quasiparticles act in conventional and unconventional superconductors, and the corresponding flat band is deformed by the unconventional superconducting state. As a result, our theoretical observations based on the fermion condensation theory are in good agreement with experimental facts.

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Comment on "Shot noise in a strange metal"

The recent paper (Science 382, 907 (2023)) is devoted to measurements of shot noise to probe excitations in nanowires of the heavy fermion (HF) metal $\rm YbRh_2Si_2$. The authors observed that shot noise is strongly suppressed, and claim that the suppression cannot be attributed to either electron-phonon or electron-electron interactions in a Fermi liquid. Their observation suggests that the current is not carried by well-defined quasiparticles in the $\rm YbRh_2Si_2$, and calls for similar research into other strange metals. In this comment, we show that it is unlikely that the affected carriers in bulk $\rm YbRh_2Si_2$ would have undergone any fragmentation.

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Transport properties of strongly correlated Fermi systems

In our short review, we consider the transport properties of strongly correlated Fermi systems like heavy fermion metals and high-$T_c$ superconductors. Their transport properties are defined by strong inter-particle interaction forming flat bands in these compounds. Indeed, in contrast to the behavior of the transport properties of conventional metals, the strongly correlated compounds exhibit the linear in temperature resistivity, $ρ(T)\propto T$. We analyze the magnetoresistance and show that it under the application of magnetic field becomes negative. It is shown that near a quantum phase transition, when the density of electronic states diverges, semiclassical physics remains applicable to describe the resistivity $ρ$ of strongly correlated metals due to the presence of a transverse zero-sound collective mode, representing the phonon mode in solids. We demonstrate that when $T$ exceeds the extremely low Debye temperature $T_D$, the resistivity $ρ(T)$ changes linearly with $T$, since the mechanism of formation of the $T$-dependence $ρ(T)$ is similar electron-phonon mechanism, which predominates at high temperatures in ordinary metals. Thus, in the region of $T$-linear resistance, electron-phonon scattering leads to a lifetime of $τ$ quasiparticles practically independent of the material, which is expressed as the ratio of the Planck constant $\hbar$ to the Boltzmann constant constant $k_B$, $Tτ\sim \hbar/k_B$. We explain that due to the non-Fermi-liquid behavior the real part of the frequency-dependent optical conductivity $σ^R_{opt}(ω)$ exhibits a scaling behavior, and demonstrates the unusual power law behavior $σ^R_{opt}(ω)\proptoω^{-1}$, rather than the well-known one shown by conventional metals, $σ^R_{opt}(ω)\proptoω^{-2}$.

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Quantum Phase Transition in $\rm CeCoIn_5$: Experimental Facts and Theory

Condensed-matter community is involved in hot debate on the nature of quantum critical points (QCP) governing the low-temperature properties of heavy fermion metals. The smeared jump like behavior revealed both in the residual resistivity $ρ_0$ and the Hall resistivity $R_H$, along with the violation of the time invariance symmetry $\mathcal{T}$ and the charge invariance $\mathcal{C}$, including the violation of quasiparticle-hole symmetry, and providing vital clues on the origin of both the non-Fermi-liquid behavior and QCP. For the first time, based on a number of important experimental data, we show that these experimental observations point out unambiguously that QCP of $\rm CeCoIn_5$ is accompanied by the symmetry violation, and QCP itself is represented by the topological fermion-condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT) connecting two Fermi surfaces of different topological charges.

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Comment on "Stranger than metals"

P. W. Phillips, N. E. Hussey, P. Abbamonte (Review Article, 8 July 2022, eabh4273) consider heavy fermion (HF) metals and high-$T_c$ superconductors naming them strange metals. They analyze such features of strange metals as quantum criticality, Planckian dissipation and recently observed fundamental link between the high-$T_c$ superconductivity and strange metals, and conclude that these problems can be possibly resolved within the framework of theories based on gravity, etc. In this comment we discuss that this claim is not correct and the successful description of the quantum criticality, Planckian dissipation and recently observed fundamental link between the high-$T_c$ superconductivity and strange metals has been given within the framework of the fermion condensation theory.

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Effect of superconductivity on the shape of flat bands

For the first time, basing both on experimental facts and our theoretical consideration, we show that Fermi systems with flat bands should be tuned with the superconducting state. Experimental measurements on magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene of the Fermi velocity $V_F$ as a function of the temperature $T_c$ of superconduction phase transition have revealed $V_F\propto T_c\propto 1/N_s(0)$, where $N_s(0)$ is the density of states at the Fermi level. We show that the high-$T_c$ compounds $\rm Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+x}$ exhibit the same behavior. Such observation is a challenge to theories of high-$T_c$ superconductivity, since $V_F$ is negatively correlated with $T_c$, for $T_c\propto 1/V_F\propto N_s(0)$. We show that the theoretical idea of forming flat bands in strongly correlated Fermi systems can explain this behavior and other experimental data collected on both $\rm Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+x}$ and twisted bilayer graphene. Our findings place stringent constraints on theories describing the nature of high-$T_c$ superconductivity and the deformation of flat band by the superconducting phase transition.

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Ultra spin liquid in $\rm Lu_3Cu_2Sb_3O_{14}$

We analyze measurements of $C_{\rm mag}/T$, specific heat $C_{\rm mag}$ divided by temperature $T$, of the recently observed ultra spin liquid. The measurements are carried out in magnetic fields on the triangular lattice compound $\rm Lu_3Cu_2Sb_3O_{14}$. We show that the obtained heat capacity $C_{\rm mag}/T$ formed by ultra spin liquid as a function of temperature $T$ versus magnetic field $B$ behaves very similar to the electronic specific heat $C_{el}/T$ of the heavy fermion (HF) metal $\rm YbRh_2Si_2$ and that of the quantum magnet $\rm ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2$. We further demonstrate that the spinon effective mass $M^*\propto C_{\rm mag}/T$ exhibits the universal scaling coinciding with that observed in HF metals and in $\rm ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2$. Based on these observations we conclude that a strongly correlated spin liquid determines the thermodynamic properties of the ultra spin liquid of $\rm Lu_3Cu_2Sb_3O_{14}$.

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Universal $T/B$ scaling behavior of heavy fermion compounds

In our mini-review, we address manifestations of $T/B$ scaling behavior of heavy-fermion (HF) compounds, where $T$ and $B$ are respectively temperature and magnetic field. Using experimental data and the fermion condensation theory, we show that this scaling behavior is typical of HF compounds including HF metals, quasicrystals, and quantum spin liquids. We demonstrate that such scaling behavior holds down to the lowest temperature and field values, so that $T/B$ varies in a wide range, provided the HF compound is located near the topological fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT). Due to the topological properties of FCQPT, the effective mass $M^*$ exhibits a universal behavior, and diverges as $T$ goes to zero. Such a behavior of $M^*$ has important technological applications. We also explain how to extract the universal scaling behavior from experimental data collected on different heavy-fermion compounds. As an example, we consider the HF metal $\rm YbCo_2Ge_4$, and show that its scaling behavior is violated at low temperatures. Our results obtained show good agreement with experimental facts.

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Fermion condensation, $T$-linear resistivity and Planckian limit

We explain recent challenging experimental observations of universal scattering rate related to the linear-temperature resistivity exhibited by a large corps of both strongly correlated Fermi systems and conventional metals. We show that the observed scattering rate in strongly correlated Fermi systems like heavy fermion metals and high-$T_c$ superconductors stems from phonon contribution that induce the linear temperature dependence of a resistivity. The above phonons are formed by the presence of flat band, resulting from the topological fermion condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT). We emphasize that so - called Planckian limit, widely used to explain the above universal scattering rate, may occur accidentally as in conventional metals its experimental manifestations (e.g. scattering rate at room and higher temperatures) are indistinguishable from those generated by the well-know phonons being the classic lattice excitations. Our results are in good agreement with experimental data and show convincingly that the topological FCQPT can be viewed as the universal agent explaining the very unusual physics of strongly correlated Fermi systems.

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Revealing quantum spin liquid in the herbertsmithite $\rm ZnCu_{3}(OH)_6Cl_{2}$

Based on experimental data and our theoretical analysis, we provide a strategy for unambiguous establishing of gapless quantum spin liquid state (QSL) in herbertsmithite and other materials. To clarify the nature of QSL, we recommend measurements of heat transport, low-energy inelastic neutron scattering and optical conductivity under the application of external magnetic field at low temperatures. We also suggest that artificially introduced inhomogeneity into $\rm ZnCu_{3}(OH)_6Cl_2$ can stabilize QSL, and serves as a test elucidating the contribution coming from impurities. We predict the results of these measurements in the case of gapless QSL.

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Universal behavior of quantum spin liquid and optical conductivity in the insulator herbertsmithite

We analyze optical conductivity with the goal to demonstrate experimental manifestation of a new state of matter, the so-called fermion condensate. Fermion condensates are realized in quantum spin liquids, exhibiting typical behavior of heavy fermion metals. Measurements of the low-frequency optical conductivity collected on the geometrically frustrated insulator herbertsmithite provide important experimental evidence of the nature of its quantum spin liquid composed of spinons. To analyze recent measurements of the herbertsmithite optical conductivity at different temperatures, we employ a model of strongly correlated quantum spin liquid located near the fermion condensation phase transition. Our theoretical analysis of the optical conductivity allows us to expose the physical mechanism of its temperature dependence. We also predict a dependence of the optical conductivity on a magnetic field. We consider an experimental manifestation (optical conductivity) of a new state of matter (so-called fermion condensate) realized in quantum spin liquids, for, in many ways, they exhibit typical behavior of heavy-fermion metals. Measurements of the low-frequency optical conductivity collected on the geometrically frustrated insulator herbertsmithite produce important experimental evidence of the nature of its quantum spin liquid composed of spinons. To analyze recent measurements of the herbertsmithite optical conductivity at different temperatures, we employ a model of strongly correlated quantum spin liquid located near the fermion condensation phase transition. Our theoretical analysis of the optical conductivity allows us to reveal the physical mechanism of its temperature dependence. We also predict a dependence of the optical conductivity on a magnetic field.

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New state of matter: heavy-fermion systems, quantum spin liquids, quasicrystals, cold gases, and high temperature superconductors

We report on a new state of matter manifested by strongly correlated Fermi systems including various heavy-fermion (HF) metals, two-dimensional quantum liquids such as $\rm ^3He$ films, certain quasicrystals, and systems behaving as quantum spin liquids. Generically, these systems can be viewed as HF systems or HF compounds, in that they exhibit typical behavior of HF metals. At zero temperature, such systems can experience a so-called fermion-condensation quantum phase transition (FCQPT). Combining analytical considerations with arguments based entirely on experimental grounds we argue and demonstrate that the class of HF systems is characterized by universal scaling behavior of their thermodynamic, transport, and relaxation properties. That is, the quantum physics of different HF compounds is found to be universal, emerging irrespective of the individual details of their symmetries, interactions, and microscopic structure. This observed universal behavior reveals the existence of a new state of matter manifest in HF compounds. We propose a simple, realistic model to study the appearance of flat bands in two-dimensional ensembles of ultracold fermionic atoms, interacting with coherent resonant light. It is shown that signatures of these flat bands may be found in peculiarities in their thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties. We also show that the FCQPT, in generating flat bands and altering Fermi surface topology, is an essential progenitor of the exotic behavior of the overdoped high-temperature superconductors represented by $\rm La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, whose superconductivity differs from that predicted by the classical Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. The theoretical results presented are in good agreement with recent experimental observations, closing the colossal gap between these empirical findings and Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-like theories.

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Flat bands and the physics of strongly correlated Fermi systems

Some materials can have the dispersionless parts in their electronic spectra. These parts are usually called flat bands and generate the corps of unusual physical properties of such materials. These flat bands are induced by the condensation of fermionic quasiparticles, being very similar to the Bose condensation. The difference is that fermions to condense, the Fermi surface should change its topology, leading to violation of time-reversal (T) and particle-hole (C) symmetries. Thus, the famous Landau theory of Fermi liquids does not work for the systems with fermion condensate (FC) so that several experimentally observable anomalies have not been explained so far. Here we use FC approach to explain recent observations of the asymmetric tunneling conductivity in heavy-fermion compounds and graphene and its restoration in magnetic fields, as well as the violation of Leggett theorem, recently observed experimentally in overdoped cuprates, and recent observation of the challenging universal scaling connecting linear-$T$-dependent resistivity to the superconducting superfluid density.

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