Nematicity-enhanced superconductivity in systems with a non-Fermi liquid behavior

We explore the interplay between nematicity (spontaneous breaking of the sixfold rotational symmetry), superconductivity, and non-Fermi liquid behavior in partially flat-band (PFB) models on the triangular lattice. A key result is that the nematicity (Pomeranchuk instability), which is driven by many-body effect and stronger in flat-band systems, enhances superconducting transition temperature in a systematic manner on the T c dome. There, a plausible sx2+y2−dx2−y2−dxy -wave symmetry, in place of the conventional dx2−y2 -wave, governs the nematicity-enhanced pairing with a sharp rise in the T c dome on the filling axis. When the sixfold symmetry is spontaneously broken, the pairing interaction is shown to become stronger with more compact pairs in real space than when the symmetry is enforced. These are accompanied by a non-Fermi character of electrons in the PFBs with many-body interactions.

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