# Diamagnetic response and phase stiffness for interacting isolated narrow bands

Superconductivity in electronic systems, where the non-interacting bandwidth for a set of isolated bands is small compared to the scale of the interactions, is a non-perturbative problem. I will present a theoretical framework for computing the electromagnetic response in the limit of zero frequency and vanishing wavenumber for the interacting problem, which controls the superconducting phase stiffness, without resorting to any mean-field approximation. Importantly, the contribution to the phase stiffness arises from (i) integrating-out" the remote bands that couple to the microscopic current operator, and (ii) the density-density interactions projected on to the isolated bands. We also obtain the electromagnetic response directly in the limit of an infinite gap to the remote bands, using the appropriate projected" gauge-transformations. These results can be used to obtain a conservative upper bound on the phase stiffness, and relatedly the superconducting transition temperature, with a few assumptions. I will take about applying this formalism to a host of topologically (non-)trivial flat-band" systems, including twisted bilayer graphene, if time permits.

Host: Arun Paramekanti
Event series  Toronto Quantum Matter Seminars