Topological chiral superconductivity beyond BCS pairing mechanism
ORAL · Invited
Abstract
We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion ε∼k^4, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both time-reversal and reflection symmetries in the orbital motion of electrons, and exhibit non-trivial topological order. Our findings suggest that this topological chiral superconductivity is more likely to emerge near or between fully spin-valley polarized metallic phase and Wigner crystal phase in multi-layer graphene. These topological chiral superconductors can be fully or partially spin-valley polarized. For partial spin-valley polarization, the ratios of electron densities associated with different spin-valley quantum numbers are quantized as simple rational numbers. Furthermore, many of these topological chiral superconductors exhibit charge-4 or higher condensation, neutral quasiparticles with fractional statistics, and/or gapless chiral edge states. Two of the topological chiral superconductors are in the same phases as the ``spin''-triplet or spinless p+ip BCS superconductor, while others are in different phases than any BCS superconductors.
*This work was partially supported by NSF grant DMR-2022428 and by the Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter, whichis a grant from the Simons Foundation (651446, XGW). LJ acknowledges the support from a Sloan Fellowship. AT was supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship grant number 2141064.
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Publication: Physical Review B 111, 014508 (2025); arXiv:2409.18067
Presenters
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Xiao-Gang Wen
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology