2009/01/08 by Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Panigrahi, Prasanta K., Vivek M. Vyas +3 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Graphene research and applications #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0901.1034
Major Revision, 4 pages, no figures
openalex publication_date 2009/01/08 · arxiv created 2010/03/24 · arxiv updated 2010/03/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that the gauge field induced due to non-uniform hopping, in gapped graphene, can give rise to a non-BCS type of superconductivity. Unlike the conventional mechanisms, this superconductivity phenomena does not require any pairing. We estimate the critical temperature for superconducting-to-normal transition via Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism. Possibility of observing the same in ultra cold atomic gases is also pointed out.