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Engineering chiral topological superconductivity in twisted Ising superconductors

Superconductivity 2022-10-05 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Van der Waals materials like NbSe2_2 or TaS2_2 have demonstrated Ising superconductivity down to atomically thin layers. Due to the spin-orbit coupling, these superconductors have the in-plane upper critical magnetic field far beyond the Pauli limit. We theoretically demonstrate that, twisted bilayer Ising superconductors separated by a ferromagnetic buffer layer can naturally host chiral topological superconductivity with Chern numbers, which can be realized in heterostructures like NbSe2/CrCl3/NbSe2\mathrm{NbSe_2/CrCl_3/NbSe_2}. Under appropriate experimental conditions the topological superconducting gap can reach >0.1>0.1 meV, leading to readily observable signatures such as the quantized thermal Hall transport at low temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.2206.01304,
  title  = {Engineering chiral topological superconductivity in twisted Ising superconductors},
  author = {Xiaodong Hu and Ying Ran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01304},
  year   = {2022}
}
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