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Engineering Chiral Topological Superconductivity in Twisted Ising Superconductors

ORAL

Abstract

Van der Waals materials like NbSe2 or TaS2 have demonstrated Ising superconductivity down to atomically thin layers. Due to the spin-orbit coupling, these superconductors have the in-plane upper critical magnetic field far beyond the Pauli limit. We theoretically demonstrate that, twisted bilayer Ising superconductors separated by a ferromagnetic buffer layer can naturally host chiral topological superconductivity with Chern numbers, which can be realized in heterostructures like NbSe2/CrCl3/NbSe2. Under appropriate experimental conditions the topological superconducting gap can reach >0.1 meV, leading to readily observable signatures such as the quantized thermal Hall transport at low temperatures.

Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01304

Presenters

  • Xiaodong Hu

    Boston College

Authors

  • Xiaodong Hu

    Boston College

  • Ying Ran

    Boston College