• 文献标题:   Topological chiral superconductivity with spontaneous vortices and supercurrent in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU FC
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Maryland
  • 被引频次:   27
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.99.195114
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We study d-wave superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and reveal phenomena that arise due to the moire superlattice. In the d-wave pairing, the relative motion (RM) of two electrons in a Cooper pair can have either d + id or d - id symmetry with opposite angular momenta. Due to the enlarged moire superlattice, the center-of-mass motion (COMM) can also carry a finite angular momentum while preserving the moire periodicity. By matching the total angular momentum, which has contributions from both the RM and the COMM, Cooper pairs with d + id and d - id RMs are intrinsically coupled in a way such that the COMM associated with one of the RMs has a spontaneous vortex-antivortex lattice configuration. Another phenomenon is that the chiral d-wave state carries spontaneous bulk circulating supercurrent. The chiral d-wave superconductors are gapped and also topological as characterized by an integer Chern number. Nematic d-wave superconductors, which could be stabilized, for example, by uniaxial strain, are gapless with point nodes.