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Dynamical Cooper pairing in nonequilibrium electron-phonon systems

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2016

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Knap, Michael, Mehrtash Babadi, Gil Refael, Ivar Martin, and Eugene Demler. 2016. “Dynamical Cooper Pairing in Nonequilibrium Electron-Phonon Systems.” Physical Review B 94 (21). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.94.214504.

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We analyze Cooper pairing instabilities in strongly driven electron-phonon systems. The light-induced nonequilibrium state of phonons results in a simultaneous increase of the superconducting coupling constant and the electron scattering. We demonstrate that the competition between these effects leads to an enhanced superconducting transition temperature in a broad range of parameters. Our results may explain the observed transient enhancement of superconductivity in several classes of materials upon irradiation with high intensity pulses of terahertz light, and may pave newways for engineering high-temperature light-induced superconducting states.

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