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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Momentum polarized superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene

Abstract: The spin-configuration of a Cooper pair is often informative of the pairing symmetry. According to the BCS theory, a conventional, s-wave superconductor arises from Cooper pairing in the singlet channel. Whereas a triplet Cooper pair is directly linked to a spatial wavefunction in the p- or f-wave channel, a hallmark of unconventional superconductivity. In multilayer graphene, the nature of the pairing instability is further complicated by emergent orders in the momentum-space. As spin is no longer the only quantum number, information regarding the exchange-driven instabilities in the momentum space is crucial for describing the pairing symmetry. In this work, we use angle-resolved nonreciprocal transport measurement to investigate the influence of the momentum-space instabilities. Across the moir\'e band filling, we uncover a new cascade phenomenon, where a series of transitions between momentum-polarized states appear outside the regular sequence of Dirac revivals. Moreover, we demonstrate a coexistence between superconductivity and spontaneous momentum polarization, which is evidenced by a one-fold symmetric angular dependence in the zero-field superconducting diode effect. Such a coexistence has intriguing implications on the nature of the pairing instability.
Comments: Main text pages 1-8, 4 figures. Method pages 9-12, 5 figures. SI page 13-23, 15 figures
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Cite as: arXiv:2209.12964 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2209.12964v3 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

Submission history

From: Naiyuan Zhang [view email]
[v1] Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:02:51 GMT (24896kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 5 Jan 2023 19:23:10 GMT (24673kb,D)
[v3] Mon, 15 May 2023 21:50:18 GMT (18481kb,D)
[v4] Thu, 1 Jun 2023 18:57:14 GMT (19635kb,D)
[v5] Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:59:50 GMT (24017kb,D)

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