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Title: Reentrant superconductivity in a quantum dot coupled to a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev metal

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
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  1. Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands); OSTI
  2. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (Italy); Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper und Werkstoffforschung, Dresden (Germany)
  3. Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands)
  4. Univ. of Warsaw (Poland)
  5. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)

The Planckian relaxation rate $$ℏ/t_P = 2πk_BT$$ sets a characteristic timescale for both the equilibration of quantum critical systems and maximal quantum chaos. In this Rapid Communication, we show that at the critical coupling between a superconducting dot and the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, known to be maximally chaotic, the pairing gap Δ behaves as $$η ℏ/t_P$$ at low temperatures, where $$\eta$$ is an order one constant. In this work, the lower critical temperature emerges with a further increase of the coupling strength so that the finite Δ domain is settled between the two critical temperatures.

Research Organization:
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
European Research Council (ERC); Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-08ER46482
OSTI ID:
1800568
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 22 Vol. 100; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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