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Unconventional superconductivity with preformed pairs in twisted bilayer graphene

Superconductivity 2023-03-21 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We present a theory of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene and analyze the superconducting phase diagram in presence of the magnetic field. Namely, we consider a model of a granular array hosting localized states, which are hybridized via the delocalized fermions in the inter-grain regions. We study a strong coupling situation when the interactions lead to an incoherent state with preformed Cooper pairs inside the grains. The Andreev scattering among different grains manifests itself through the global phase-coherent superconducting state at lower temperatures. We demonstrate that a new phase transition between the preformed Cooper pairing state and the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell state might be induced by the spin pair-breaking effect of in-plane magnetic field. The upper critical magnetic field is shown to be enhanced in the strong coupling case.

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@article{arxiv.2208.12039,
  title  = {Unconventional superconductivity with preformed pairs in twisted bilayer graphene},
  author = {SK Firoz Islam and A. Yu. Zyuzin and Alexander A. Zyuzin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.12039},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures