Unconventional Superconductivity and Density Waves in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Abstract
We study electronic ordering instabilities of twisted bilayer graphene with 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 /-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 and yields a single doubly-degenerate pocket upon doping to . 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