• 文献标题:   Spin-fluctuation-induced pairing in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FISCHER A, KLEBL L, HONERKAMP C, KENNES DM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
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  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.103.L041103
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the interplay of magnetic fluctuations and Cooper pairing in twisted bilayer graphene from a purely microscopic model within a large-scale tight-binding approach resolving the angstrom scale. For local on-site repulsive interactions and using the random-phase approximation for spin fluctuations, we derive a microscopic effective pairing interaction that we use for self-consistent solutions of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations of superconductivity. We study the predominant pairing types as a function of interaction strength, temperature, and band filling. For large regions of this parameter space, we find chiral d-wave pairing regimes, spontaneously breaking time-reversal symmetry, separated by magnetic instabilities at integer band fillings. Interestingly, the d-wave pairing is strongly concentrated in the AA regions of the moire unit cell and exhibits phase windings of integer multiples of 2 pi around these superconducting islands, i.e., pinned vortices. The spontaneous circulating current creates a distinctive magnetic field pattern. This signature of the chiral pairing should be measurable by state-of-the-art experimental techniques.