Unusual properties of unconventional superconductivity on the kagome lattice
Author: Andersen, Brian Møller
Affiliation: University of Copenhagen
Type: Invited Talk
Session: Kagome and altermagnetic superconductivity
Date and Time: 23.07.2026, 16:30 - 17:00
Kagome metals have recently emerged at a growing promising research field. Correlated electrons on the kagome lattice may generate several proposed unusual phases, including charge- and loop-current order. In the superconducting phase, unconventional superconductivity is likely to be realized, even though several experiments appear to point to more standard (conventional) superconductivity. This includes e.g. the presence of a Hebel-Slichter peak, a full energy gap, and the abesence of in-gap imputiyy bound states. In this presentation, I will review these properties, and show that they are in fact all consistent with sign-changing unconventional superconductivity. This surprising discovery is rooted in the peculiar sublattice polarization realized for the kagome lattice. In the end of the talk, I zoom-out to other systems and discuss the more general validity of when unconventional superconductivity "looks like" conventional superconductivity. I will also expose our ammendment to Anderson's theorem on disorder properties of superconductors: "Unconventional superconductivity can be robust to non-magnetic disorder at specific sites."