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Superconductivity is boundless.

2021 
What limits the value of the superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$) is a question of great fundamental and practical importance. Various upper bounds on $T_c$ have been proposed, expressed as fractions of the Fermi temperature, $T_F$, the zero-temperature superfluid stiffness, $\rho_s(0)$, or a characteristic Debye frequency, $\omega_0$. We show that while these bounds are physically motivated and are certainly useful in many relevant situations, none of them serve as a rigorous bound on $T_c$. To demonstrate this, we provide explicit models where $T_c/T_F$ (with an appropriately defined $T_F$), $T_c/\rho_s(0)$, and $T_c/\omega_0$ are unbounded.
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