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Pair-density-wave and chiral superconductivity in twisted bilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides

Superconductivity 2024-05-17 v2 Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We theoretically explore possible unconventional superconductivity induced by weak repulsive interactions in twisted bilayer TMD (e.g. WSe2_2) in the presence of an out-of-plane electric field. Using renormalization group (RG) analysis, we show that topological chiral superconducting states with Chern number N=1,2,4\mathcal{N}=1,2,4 (namely p+ipp+ip, d+idd+id, g+igg+ig) appear over a large parameter region with moire filling factor around n=1n=1. At some special values of applied electric field and in the presence of a weak out-of-plane Zeeman field, spin-polarized pair density wave (PDW) superconductivity can emerge. This spin-polarized PDW state can be probed by experiments such as spin-polarized STM measuring spin-resolved pairing gap and quasi-particle interference. Moreover, the spin-polarized PDW could lead to spin-polarized superconducting diode effect.

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@article{arxiv.2203.05480,
  title  = {Pair-density-wave and chiral superconductivity in twisted bilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides},
  author = {Yi-Ming Wu and Zhengzhi Wu and Hong Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05480},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

5 pages and 4 figs with supplementary material