Upper critical in-plane magnetic field in layered graphene superconductors  

Oral-In-person

Abstract

The interplay of applied external magnetic field and superconductivity has been invigorated by recent works on Bernal bilayer and rhombohedral graphene. These studies, with and without proximitized spin-orbit coupling, have opened up a new frontier in the exploration of unconventional superconductors as they offer a unique platform to investigate superconductivity with high degree of in-plane magnetic field resilience and even magnetic field-induced superconductivity. We present a framework for an analytically tractable superconducting pairing model that captures the normal state phenomenology of these systems and apply it to calculate the relationship between the upper critical field $B_{c2}$ and the corresponding critical temperature $T_{c}$. We study the $B_{c2}-T_{c}$ critical curve as a function of experimental parameters (Ising and Rashba spin-orbit coupling) and depairing mechanisms (Zeeman and orbital coupling) for both spin-singlet and triplet pairing. Applying our framework to analyze four recent Bernal bilayer graphene-WSe$_2$ experiments, we identify an apparent discrepancy between fitted and measured spin-orbit parameters, which we propose can be explained  by an enhancement of the Landé g factor in the Bernal bilayer graphene experiments.

Presenters

  • Huiyang Ma

    • Florida State University

Authors

  • Huiyang Ma

    • Florida State University
  • Dmitry Chichinadze

    • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Cyprian Lewandowski

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory