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Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in hole-doped monolayer MoS$_{2}$

Superconductivity 2019-08-27 v2

Abstract

We investigate the nature of the time-reversal breaking pairing state in the hole-doped monolayer MoS2_{2} on the basis of the realistic three-orbital attractive Hubbard-like model with the atomic spin-orbit coupling. Due to the multi-band features arising from the Mo dd orbitals in the noncentrosymmetric crystal structure, the Lifshitz transition takes place upon hole doping. Across the Lifshitz transition point, the sign of the relative phase between the Cooper-pair components drastically changes, leading to the emergence of the time-reversal breaking phase with complex gap functions. It is shown that this intriguing pairing state is characterized by the finite momentum-space distributions of the orbital and spin angular momentum with three-fold rotational symmetry on the Fermi-surface pockets around K and K' points. The present mechanism for the time-reversal breaking superconductivity can ubiquitously be applied to spin-orbit-coupled metals in noncentrosymmetric crystal structures.

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@article{arxiv.1903.04830,
  title  = {Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in hole-doped monolayer MoS$_{2}$},
  author = {Rikuto Oiwa and Yuki Yanagi and Hiroaki Kusunose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04830},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures