Superconductivity from spin-canting fluctuations in rhombohedral graphene
ORAL
Abstract
Rhombohedral graphene multilayers host various broken-symmetry metallic phases as well as superconductors whose pairing mechanism and order parameter symmetry remain unsettled. Strikingly, experiments have revealed prominent new superconducting regions in rhombohedral bilayer and trilayer graphene devices with proximity-induced Ising spin-orbit coupling. We propose that these superconductors can be triggered by critical fluctuations occurring near the onset of spin-canting order. In this scenario, contrary to conventional mechanisms that involve the exchange of a single boson, we show that second-order processes that exchange \emph{two} magnons are dominant and produce a pairing interaction featuring a unique logarithmic low-frequency divergence. This low-frequency divergence requires spin-orbit coupling, providing a promising explanation for spin-orbit-enabled pairing.
*Z. D. and E. L.H. are supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's EPiQS Initiative, Grant GBMF8682. Portions of this work were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Quantum Science Center
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Publication: arXiv:2406.17036
Presenters
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Zhiyu Dong
- Caltech
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology