• 文献标题:   Nematic superconductivity stabilized by density wave fluctuations: Possible application to twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KOZII V, ISOBE H, VENDERBOS JWF, FU L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   MIT
  • 被引频次:   28
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.99.144507
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Nematic superconductors possess unconventional superconducting order parameters that spontaneously break rotational symmetry of the underlying crystal. In this work we propose a mechanism for nematic superconductivity stabilized by strong density wave fluctuations in two dimensions. While the weak-coupling theory finds the fully gapped chiral state to be energetically stable, we show that strong density wave fluctuations result in an additional contribution to the free energy of a superconductor with multicomponent order parameters, which generally favors nematic superconductivity. Our theory sheds light on the recent observation of rotational symmetry breaking in the superconducting state of twisted bilayer graphene.