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Nodal pair-density-waves from quarter-metal in crystalline graphene multilayers.

ORAL

Abstract

Crystalline graphene heterostructures, namely Bernal bilayer and rhombohedral trilayer graphene, subject to electric displacement fields, display a rich confluence of competing orders, resulting in a valley-degenerate, spin-polarized half-metal at moderate doping, and a spin- and valley-polarized quarter-metal at low doping. Here we show that the annular Fermi surface of such a quarter-metal can be susceptible toward the nucleation of a unique spin and valley polarized superconducting state, accommodating interlayer Cooper pairs that break the translational symmetry, giving rise to a Kekulé or columnar pair-density-wave. The superconducting ground state produces isolated Fermi pockets of neutral Majorana fermions, featuring a three-fold rotational symmetry, resulting in power-law scaling physical observables with temperature (T), such as specific heat Cv∼T.

Presenters

  • Sk Asrap Murshed

    Lehigh University

Authors

  • Sk Asrap Murshed

    Lehigh University

  • Bitan Roy

    Lehigh University

  • Andras Szabo

    ETH Zuerich