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Unconventional Superconductivity and Density Waves in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-12-10 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We study electronic ordering instabilities of twisted bilayer graphene with n=2n=2 electrons per supercell, where correlated insulator state and superconductivity are recently observed. Motivated by the Fermi surface nesting and the proximity to Van Hove singularity, we introduce a hot-spot model to study the effect of various electron interactions systematically. Using renormalization group method, we find dd/pp-wave superconductivity and charge/spin density wave emerge as the two types of leading instabilities driven by Coulomb repulsion. The density wave state has a gapped energy spectrum at n=2n=2 and yields a single doubly-degenerate pocket upon doping to n>2n>2. The intertwinement of density wave and superconductivity and the quasiparticle spectrum in the density wave state are consistent with experimental observations.

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@article{arxiv.1805.06449,
  title  = {Unconventional Superconductivity and Density Waves in Twisted Bilayer Graphene},
  author = {Hiroki Isobe and Noah F. Q. Yuan and Liang Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06449},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages, 12 figures; updated discussion and analysis on density wave states