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Superconductivity near two-dimensional Van Hove singularities: A determinant quantum Monte Carlo study

Gustav Romare, Daniel Shaffer, Alex Levchenko, Edwin Huang, and Ilya Esterlis

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 1 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/s8kf-crkv

Abstract

The superconducting transition temperature Tc 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 |U|≲W/3, where W is the electronic bandwidth, Tc 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 Tc. For |U|≳W/3, the maximum Tc 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 Tc in the model is achieved at intermediate U and at a density away from the Van Hove point.

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