Composite quantum geometry of superconductors

Abstract

The interplay of superconductivity and the quantum geometry of the normal state has recently been the subject of an array of studies, especially regarding the superfluid weight. In this work, we turn our attention to the quantum geometry of the superconducting state itself, set by the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonian, which dictates the geometric and topological properties of superconductivity. We show that under three general conditions, namely superconducting fitness, orbital uniformity of the superconducting pairing, and absence of normal-state spin-flip terms, the BdG quantum geometry exactly separates into a sum of the normal-state quantum geometry and an additional pairing quantum geometry, thereby displaying a simple composite structure. We show that this separation holds for all spin-singlet and -triplet pairings, including nonunitary spin-triplet pairing. We further provide explicit analytical formulas for the pairing quantum geometry for all these cases. These results establish how superconducting pairing alone easily drives both topology and a finite quantum metric, thus being present even in topological trivial or flat band superconductors, with no normal state quantum geometry. To complement these results, we also derive the BdG quantum geometry of a general two-orbital spin-singlet superconductor with non-uniform pairing and finite superconducting fitness. Here, our explicit analytical results establish a non-separable composite BdG quantum geometry, with the normal state and pairing contributions generally intertwining, thereby producing even more possibilities for finite quantum geometry. Our results provide design rules for creating superconductors and superconducting hybrid structures with nontrivial topology and finite quantum metric and will additionally help in the experimental diagnosis of unconventional superconductivity.