Unconventional Superconductivity and Density Waves in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
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Isobe, Hiroki; Yuan, Noah F. Q.; Fu, Liang
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We study electronic ordering instabilities of twisted bilayer graphene around the filling of n=2 electrons per supercell, where correlated insulator state and superconductivity have been recently observed. Motivated by the Fermi surface nesting and the proximity to Van Hove singularity, we introduce a hot-spot model to study the effect of various electron interactions systematically. Using the renormalization group method, we find that d or p-wave superconductivity and charge or spin density wave emerge as the two types of leading instabilities driven by Coulomb repulsion. The density-wave state has a gapped energy spectrum around n=2 and yields a single doubly degenerate pocket upon doping to n>2. The intertwinement of density wave and superconductivity and the quasiparticle spectrum in the density-wave state are consistent with experimental observations. Subject Areas: Condensed Matter Physics, Superconductivity
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2018-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review X
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American Physical Society
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Isobe, Hiroki, et al. “Unconventional Superconductivity and Density Waves in Twisted Bilayer Graphene.” Physical Review X, vol. 8, no. 4, Dec. 2018. © 2018 American Physical Society
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2160-3308