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Chiral superconductivity from parent Chern band and its non-Abelian generalization

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Abstract

We propose a minimal model starting from a parent Chern band with quartic dispersion that can describe the spin-valley polarized electrons in rhombohedral tetra-layer graphene. The interplay between repulsive and attractive interactions on top of that parent Chern band is studied. We conduct standard self-consistent mean-field calculations, and find a rich phase diagram that consists of metal, quantum anomalous Hall crystal, chiral topological superconductor, as well as trivial gapped Bose-Einstein condensate. In particular, there exists a topological phase transition from the chiral superconductor to the Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. Motivated by the recent experimental and theoretical studies of composite Fermi liquid in rhombohedral stacked multi-layer graphene, we further generalize the physical electron model to its composite fermion counterpart based on a field theory analysis. We argue that a chiral spin liquid phase can emerge in the vicinity of the chiral superconductor phase of the composite fermion, i.e., the non-Abelian Moore-Read quantum Hall phase. Our work suggests rhombohedral multi-layer graphene as a potential platform for rich correlated topological phases.

Presenters

  • Yan-Qi Wang

    University of Maryland College Park

Authors

  • Yan-Qi Wang

    University of Maryland College Park

  • Zhi-Qiang Gao

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Hui Yang

    Johns Hopkins University