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Chiral and topological superconductivity in isospin polarized multilayer graphene

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Abstract

A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral -wave pairing symmetry, and exhibits highest close to a Lifshitz transition from annular to simply-connected Fermi sea. This Lifshitz transition also marks a topological phase transition from a trivial to a topological superconducting phase hosting Majorana fermions. The chirality of the superconducting order parameter is selected by the chirality of the valley-polarized Bloch electrons. Our results are in reasonable agreement with observations in a recent experiment on tetralayer graphene [arXiv:2408.15233]

Publication: arXiv:2409.13829

Presenters

  • Max Geier

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT

Authors

  • Max Geier

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT

  • Margarita Davydova

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Liang Fu

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology