title: Emergence of superconductivity in heavy-electron materials.
abstract: Although the pairing glue for the attractive quasiparticle interaction responsible for unconventional superconductivity in heavy-electron materials has been identified as the spin fluctuations that arise from their proximity to a magnetic quantum critical point, there has been no model to describe their superconducting transition at temperature Tc that is comparable to that found by Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer (BCS) for conventional superconductors, where phonons provide the pairing glue. Here we propose such a model: a phenomenological BCS-like expression for Tc in heavy-electron materials that is based on a simple model for the effective range and strength of the spin-fluctuation-induced quasiparticle interaction and reflects the unusual properties of the heavy-electron normal state from which superconductivity emerges. We show that it provides a quantitative understanding of the pressure-induced variation of Tc in the "hydrogen atoms" of unconventional superconductivity, CeCoIn5 and CeRhIn5, predicts scaling behavior and a dome-like structure for Tc in all heavy-electron quantum critical superconductors, provides unexpected connections between members of this family, and quantifies their variations in Tc with a single parameter.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100190, China; yifeng@iphy.ac.cn david.pines@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Yi-feng
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501 yifeng@iphy.ac.cn david.pines@gmail.com.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pines
keywords: BCS; heavy fermion; spin fluctuation; two-fluid model