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Unconventional superconductivity in nearly flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-03-27 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity

Abstract

Flat electronic bands can accommodate a plethora of interaction driven quantum phases, since kinetic energy is quenched therein and electronic interactions therefore prevail. Twisted bilayer graphene, near so-called the "magic angles", features \emph{slow} Dirac fermions close to the charge-neutrality point that persist up to high-energies. Starting from a continuum model of slow, but strongly interacting Dirac fermions, we show that with increasing chemical doping away from the charge-neutrality point, a time-reversal symmetry breaking, valley pseudo-spin-triplet, topological p+ipp+ip superconductor gradually sets in, when the system resides at the brink of an anti-ferromagnetic ordering (due to Hubbard repulsion), in qualitative agreement with recent experimental findings. The p+ipp+ip paired state exhibits quantized spin and thermal Hall conductivities, polar Kerr and Faraday rotations. Our conclusions should also be applicable for other correlated two-dimensional Dirac materials.

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@article{arxiv.1803.11190,
  title  = {Unconventional superconductivity in nearly flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene},
  author = {Bitan Roy and Vladimir Juricic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.11190},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 Pages, 2 Figures: Published Version in PRB (Supplementary Materials: 4 Pages, Ancillary file)