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Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting states that break time reversal symmetry spontaneously and typically feature Cooper pairing at non-zero angular momentum. Such states may host Majorana fermions and provide an…

Recent experiments have observed signatures of spin-valley-polarized unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$). Here, we explore the rich physics of superconducting tMoTe$_2$, enabled by its unique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-17 Jin-Xin Hu , Akito Daido , Zi-Ting Sun , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

Topological superconductivity is currently one of the prime interests, given the properties of its exotic nature of chiral edge states. A broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is an essential ingredient in the recipe of a chiral edge state.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-05 Sajid Sekh , Andrzej Ptok

We show that Weyl superconductivity can be induced by finite supercurrent in noncentrosymmetric spin-orbit-coupled superconductors with line nodes. We introduce a three-dimensional tight-binding model of a tetragonal superconductor in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-08 Shuntaro Sumita , Kazuaki Takasan

Monolayer NbSe$_2$ is a nodal topological Ising superconductor at magnetic in-plane fields exceeding the Pauli limit, with nodal points strictly on high symmetry lines in the Brillouin zone. Here, we use a combined numerical and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-26 David Möckli , Maxim Khodas

We study theoretically the effects of long-range and on-site Coulomb interactions on the topological phases and transport properties of spin-orbit-coupled quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires imposed on an s-wave superconductor. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-12 Hengyi Xu , Ye Xiong , Jun Wang

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

Interfaces between topological insulators and superconductors are promising platforms for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs) via the superconducting proximity effect. We introduce a bilayer model consisting of the surface states of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-22 Umesh Kumar , Rafal Rechcinski , Tatiana de Picoli , Jukka Vayrynen , Satoshi Okamoto

We study electronic ordering instabilities of twisted bilayer graphene with $n=2$ electrons per supercell, where correlated insulator state and superconductivity are recently observed. Motivated by the Fermi surface nesting and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-10 Hiroki Isobe , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

Since the discovery of superconductivity and correlated insulator at fractional electron fillings in the twisted bilayer graphene, most theoretical efforts have been focused on describing this system in terms of an effective extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Chuan Wu , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

Recent theoretical work predicted emergence of chiral topological superconducting phase with spontaneously broken time reversal symmetry in a twisted bilayer composed of two high-$T_c$ cuprate monolayers, such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-13 Oguzhan Can , Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Catherine Kallin , Marcel Franz

We find a mixed chirality $d$-wave superconducting state in the coexistence region between antiferromagnetism and interaction-driven superconductivity in lightly doped honeycomb materials. This state has a topological chiral $d+id$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Black-Schaffer , K. Le Hur

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen

An overview is given on how superconductivity with anisotropic pairing can be realised from repulsive electron-electron interaction. (i) We start from the physics in one dimension, where the Tomonaga-Luttinger theory predicts that, while…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Hideo Aoki

Systems in which exchange interactions couple carrier spins to a spin texture with a net chirality exhibit a spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect, where the geometric gauge field and pseudo-magnetic field have opposite signs for carriers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-31 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov , Patrick A. Lee

We study superconductivity in a Weyl semimetal with a tilted dispersion around two Weyl points of opposite chirality. In the absence of any tilt, the state with zero momentum pairing between two Fermi sheets enclosing each Weyl point has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Alidoust , K. Halterman , A. A. Zyuzin

The interplay between ferroelectricity, magnetism, and superconductivity provides a rich platform for discovering novel quantum phenomena. Here, we develop an effective theory and propose a heterostructure composed of an antiferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-02 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Topological superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which the fully gapped superconducting bulk hosts gapless Majorana surface states protected by topology. Intercalation of copper, strontium or niobium between the quintuple…

We utilize the fluctuation-exchange approximation on a bilayer two-orbital model, incorporating $d_{x^2-y^2}$ and $d_{z^2}$ orbitals, to explore potential pairing symmetries in the bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$. Our study particularly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-20 Wenhan Xi , Shun-Li Yu , Jian-Xin Li

We show that the current thermodynamic measurements in the superconducting phase of $\mathrm{U}\mathrm{Ru}_2\mathrm{Si}_2$ are compatible with two distinct singlet chiral paired states $k_z(k_x \pm i k_y)$ and $(k_x \pm i k_y)^2$. Despite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-13 Pallab Goswami , Luis Balicas