Spectroscopic signature of spin triplet odd-valley superconductivity in two-dimensional materials
T. H. Kokkeler, Chunli Huang, F. S. Bergeret, I. V. Tokatly
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.L180504 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Motivated by recent discoveries of superconductivity in lightly doped multilayer graphene systems, we present a low-energy model to study superconductivity in two-dimensional materials whose Fermi surface consists of two valleys at ±K points. We assume a triplet odd-valley superconducting order with a pair potential that is isotropic in each valley but has a different sign in the two different valleys. Our theory predicts the emergence of an almost flat band of edge states centered at zero energy for certain edge orientations. As a result, a prominent experimental signature of this type of superconductivity is the presence of a large zero-energy peak in the local density of states near specific edges. The results of the effective low-energy theory are confirmed by numerically analyzing a specific microscopic tight-binding realization of odd-valley superconductivity: f-wave superconductivity on a honeycomb lattice in a ribbon geometry. Our work provides a test for odd-valley superconductivity through edge spectroscopy.
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