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Intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene

Superconductivity 2025-05-20 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene, which has been discovered experimentally in Han etet alal arXiv:2408.15233. We construct a minimal model for the intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity, assuming a simplified anisotropic interaction that depends only on the angle between the incoming and outgoing momenta. Despite the absence of \textit{Fermi surface nesting}, we show that superconductivity can emerge near the Van Hove singularity with the maximal TcT_c near a bifurcation point of the peaks in the density of states. We identify the p+ipp+ip, h+ihh+ih, and the nodal ff-wave pairings as the possible states, which are all pair density wave orders due to the intravalley nature. Furthermore, these pair density wave orders require a finite attractive threshold for superconductivity, resulting in {a narrow stripe shape of superconducting region}, consistent with experimental findings. We point out that the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism is a plausible explanation with a dominant p+ipp+ip pairing. The possibility of realizing intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity in other rhombohedral graphene systems is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2409.06701,
  title  = {Intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene},
  author = {Yang-Zhi Chou and Jihang Zhu and Sankar Das Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06701},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures. Published version