Possible enhancement of superconductivity in ambient-pressure thin films
Phys. Rev. B 114, 034511 – Published 29 July, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t8s3-v8mt
Abstract
As an unconventional superconducting system capable of reaching 60 K under ambient pressure, the thin-film superconductor has recently become a focal point in the field of superconductivity, calling for further theoretical exploration of its possible pairing mechanisms. In this work, we employ the fluctuation exchange (FLEX) approximation to systematically analyze the superconducting properties of a previously proposed two-site, two-orbital model for the thin film in the weakly correlated regime, with particular emphasis on its dependence on hole doping. Through a more detailed examination of the Fermi-surface topology, we find that when a pocket composed of the antibonding orbital emerges near the point, its nesting with the pocket, together with the nesting between the and pockets, leads to a mutual enhancement of -wave pairing at the corresponding wave vector. Furthermore, we propose that this nesting-driven enhancement of spin-fluctuation-induced pairing may provide a viable mechanism for enhancing superconductivity.