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A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral $p$-wave pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Max Geier , Margarita Davydova , Liang Fu

We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion $\varepsilon \sim k^4$, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Minho Kim , Abigail Timmel , Long Ju , Xiao-Gang Wen

We propose to realize second-order topological superconductivity in bilayer spin-polarized Fermi gas superfluids. We focus on systems with intralayer chiral $p$-wave pairing and with tunable interlayer hopping and interlayer interactions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-06 Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan , Wen Huang

Moir\'e materials provide exciting platforms for studying the interplay of strong electronic correlation and large magnetic flux effects. We study the lightly doped Hofstadter-Hubbard model on a triangular lattice through large-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-04 Feng Chen , Wen O. Wang , Jia-Xin Zhang , Leon Balents , D. N. Sheng

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

We model the newly predicted high-$T_c$ superconducting candidates constructed by corner-shared trigonal bipyramidal complexes with an effective three-orbital tight-banding Hamiltonian and investigate the pairing symmetry of their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-11 Chen Lu , Li-Da Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Fan Yang , Jiangping Hu

Molybdenum disulphide (MoS$_2$) has attracted much interest in recent years due to its potential applications in a new generation of electronic devices. Recently, it was shown that thin films of MoS$_2$ can become superconducting with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-05 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Kin Fai Mak , K. T. Law

We study the superconducting state of multi-orbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the inter-orbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Based on our revised perturbational-band theory, we study possible pairing states driven by interaction in the electron-doped quasicrystal 30\degree-twisted bilayer graphene. Our mean-field study on the related t-J model predicts that, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-13 Yu-Bo Liu , Yongyou Zhang , Wei-Qiang Chen , Fan Yang

We have conducted a theoretical investigation of the topological phenomena associated with chiral superconducting pairing states induced in a doped Kane-Mele model on a honeycomb lattice. Through numerical analysis, we have obtained exotic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-30 Junkang Huang , Tao Zhou , Z. D. Wang

One approach to probe the still controversial superconductivity in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is to apply external perturbations that break the underlying tetragonal crystalline symmetry. Chiral $p_x+ip_y$ and $d_{xz}+id_{yz}$ states respond to such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-19 Hao-Tian Liu , Weipeng Chen , Jia-Xin Yin , Cai Liu , Wen Huang

The search for a superconductor with non-s-wave pairing is important not only for understanding unconventional mechanisms of superconductivity but also for finding new types of quasiparticles such as Majorana bound states. Materials with…

Topological superconductors (SCs) are novel phases of matter with nontrivial bulk topology. They host at their boundaries and vortex cores zero-energy Majorana bound states, potentially useful in fault-tolerant quantum computation. Chiral…

We investigate strong coupling topological superconductivity in twisted moir\'e bilayer WSe$_2$. Our approach is based on an effective $t$-$J$ model with displacement-field-dependent complex hoppings, which is treated with the variational…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Waseem Akbar , Andrzej Biborski , Louk Rademaker , Michał Zegrodnik

We show that topological superconductivity may emerge upon doping of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers above an integer-filling magnetic state of the topmost valence moir\'e band. The effective attraction between charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Daniele Guerci , Jennifer Cano , J. H. Pixley , Andrew Millis

Motivated by the recent experimental discovery of superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene, we investigate the pairing mechanism arising from the density-density interactions within the random-phase approximation. This approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Qiong Qin , Congjun Wu

A superconductor with $p_x+ip_y$ order has long fascinated the physics community because vortex defects in such a system host Majorana zero modes. Here we propose a simple construction of a chiral superconductor using proximitized quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-10 Tarun Tummuru , Oguzhan Can , Marcel Franz

The chiral topological superconductor in two dimensions has a full pairing gap in the bulk and a single chiral Majorana state at the edge. The vortex of the chiral superconducting state carries a Majorana zero mode which is responsible for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We propose a model for a superconductor where both spin-singlet and chiral triplet pairing amplitudes can coexist. By solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations with a general pair potential that accounts for both spin states we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Pablo Burset , Felix Keidel , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa , Björn Trauzettel

We report observation of spin triplet superconductivity in epitaxial Bi/Ni bilayers with TC up to 4 K and 2Delta/kBTC = 12. Andreev reflection spectroscopy (ARS) with ballistic injection of unpolarized and spin-polarized electrons…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-25 G. J. Zhao , X. X. Gong , J. C. He , J. A. Gifford , H. X. Zhou , Y. Chen , X. F. Jin , C. L. Chien , T. Y. Chen