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Title: Magic angles and correlations in twisted nodal superconductors
(Submitted on 14 Dec 2020 (v1), last revised 6 Dec 2022 (this version, v2))
Abstract: Motivated by recent advances in the fabrication of twisted bilayers of 2D materials, we consider the low-energy properties of a twisted pair of two-dimensional nodal superconductors. We study both the cases of singlet and triplet superconductors. It is demonstrated that the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) quasiparticle dispersion undergoes dramatic reconstruction due to the twist. In particular, the velocity of the neutral massless Dirac excitations near the gap nodes is strongly renormalized by the interlayer hopping and vanishes at a ``magic angle'' where in the limit of a circular Fermi surface a quadratic band touching is formed. In addition, it is shown that the BdG disperion can be tuned with an interlayer displacement field, magnetic field, and current, which can suppress the velocity renormalization, create finite BdG Fermi surfaces, or open a gap, respectively. Finally, interactions between quasiparticles are shown to lead to the emergence of a correlated superconducting state breaking time-reversal symmetry in the vicinity of the magic angle. Estimates of the magic angle in a variety of nodal superconductors are presented, ranging from the cuprates to the organic and heavy fermion superconductors, all of which are shown to be promising for the experimental realization of our proposal.
Submission history
From: Pavel Volkov Andreevich [view email][v1] Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:00:01 GMT (3179kb,D)
[v2] Tue, 6 Dec 2022 18:20:41 GMT (7326kb,D)
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