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Chiral and topological superconductivity in isospin polarized multilayer graphene

Superconductivity 2024-09-24 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral pp-wave pairing symmetry, and exhibits highest TcT_c close to a Lifshitz transition from annular to simply-connected Fermi sea. This Lifshitz transition also marks a topological phase transition from a trivial to a topological superconducting phase hosting Majorana fermions. The chirality of the superconducting order parameter is selected by the chirality of the valley-polarized Bloch electrons. Our results are in reasonable agreement with observations in a recent experiment on tetralayer graphene [arXiv:2408.15233]

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@article{arxiv.2409.13829,
  title  = {Chiral and topological superconductivity in isospin polarized multilayer graphene},
  author = {Max Geier and Margarita Davydova and Liang Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13829},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7+4 pages, 4+4 figures