Unconventional superconductivity in nearly flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene

Bitan Roy; Vladimir Juričić

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.121407

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Unconventional superconductivity in nearly flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene

Bitan Roy, Vladimir Juričić

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.121407 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Flat electronic bands can accommodate a plethora of interaction-driven quantum phases, since kinetic energy is quenched therein and electronic interactions therefore prevail. Twisted bilayer graphene, near the so-called “magic angles”, features slow Dirac fermions close to the charge-neutrality point that persist up to high energies. Starting from a continuum model of slow but strongly interacting Dirac fermions, we show that with increasing chemical doping away from the charge-neutrality point, a time-reversal symmetry breaking, valley pseudospin-triplet, topological p+ip superconductor gradually sets in, when the system resides at the brink of an antiferromagnetic ordering (due to Hubbard repulsion), in qualitative agreement with recent experimental findings. The p+ip paired state exhibits quantized spin and thermal Hall conductivities, and polar Kerr and Faraday rotations. Our conclusions should also be applicable for other correlated two-dimensional Dirac materials.