- Accepted Paper
Superconductivity near two-dimensional Van Hove singularities: A determinant quantum Monte Carlo study
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 1 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/s8kf-crkv
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 1 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/s8kf-crkv
The superconducting transition temperature of the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model is computed in the vicinity of both ordinary (logarithmic) and higher-order (power-law) Van Hove singularities using determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations. For interaction strengths , where is the electronic bandwidth, is enhanced in the neighborhood of the Van Hove point, albeit more weakly than expected from weak-coupling BCS theory. Enhancing the Van Hove singularity from logarithmic to power-law yields only a minor additional enhancement of . For , the maximum shifts away from the Van Hove point and instead occurs at a density unrelated to any features in the non-interacting density of states, consistent with a strong-coupling interpretation. We find that the maximal in the model is achieved at intermediate and at a density away from the Van Hove point.
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