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Quasiperiodic criticality and spin-triplet superconductivity in superconductor-antiferromagnet moire patterns

Superconductivity 2021-03-22 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Quasiperiodicity has long been known to be a potential platform to explore exotic phenomena, realizing an intricate middle point between ordered solids and disordered matter. In particular, quasiperiodic structures are promising playgrounds to engineer critical wavefunctions, a powerful starting point to engineer exotic correlated states. Here we show that systems hosting a quasiperiodic modulation of antiferromagnetism and spin-singlet superconductivity, as realized by atomic chains in twisted van der Waals materials, host a localization-delocalization transition as a function of the coupling strength. Associated with this transition, we demonstrate the emergence of a robust quasiperiodic critical point for arbitrary incommensurate potentials, that appears for generic relative weights of the spin-singlet superconductivity and antiferromagnetism. We show that the inclusion of residual electronic interactions leads to an emergent spin-triplet superconducting state, that gets dramatically enhanced at the vicinity of the quasiperiodic critical point. Our results put forward quasiperiodicity as a powerful knob to engineer robust superconducting states, providing an alternative pathway towards artificially designed unconventional superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.2010.16390,
  title  = {Quasiperiodic criticality and spin-triplet superconductivity in superconductor-antiferromagnet moire patterns},
  author = {Maryam Khosravian and J. L. Lado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.16390},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures