Superconductivity on the Brink of Spin-Charge Order in a Doped Honeycomb Bilayer

Oskar Vafek; James M. Murray; Vladimir Cvetkovic

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.147002

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Superconductivity on the Brink of Spin-Charge Order in a Doped Honeycomb Bilayer

Oskar Vafek, James M. Murray, Vladimir Cvetkovic

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.147002 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

Using a controlled weak-coupling renormalization group approach, we establish the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity in the vicinity of spin or charge ordered excitonic states for the case of electrons on the Bernal stacked bilayer honeycomb lattice. With one electron per site, this system, physically realized in bilayer graphene, is unstable towards a spontaneous symmetry breaking. Repulsive interactions favor excitonic order, such as a charge nematic and/or a layer antiferromagnet. We find that upon adding charge carriers to the system, the excitonic order is suppressed, and unconventional superconductivity appears in its place, before it is replaced by a Fermi liquid. We focus on firmly establishing this phenomenon using the renormalization group formalism within an idealized model with parabolic touching of conduction and valence bands.