DMRG evidence for superconductivity via skyrmion-condensation: Application to magic angle graphene
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Abstract
We numerically study the fate of interacting electrons in tunnel-coupled spinful Chern bands with opposite Chern numbers using density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG). Such a model has been argued to capture the essential symmetries and band topology of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. On doping away from the antiferromagnetic insulator at charge neutrality, we find a superconducting ground state, although the inter-electronic interaction is purely repulsive. By studying the energetics of charged excitations, we establish that superconductivity is driven by the binding of electrons into charge-2e bosonic skyrmions which subsequently condense. This binding is observed even in the regime where the Coulomb repulsion is by-far the largest energy scale, demonstrating the robustness of this topological, all-electronic pairing mechanism.
*S.C. was supported by the ARO through the Anyon Bridge MURI program (grant number W911NF-17-1-0323), and the W. M. Keck Foundation via Norman Y. Yao. M.I. was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through Grant GBMF4302 and GBMF8686. M.Z. was supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, MSE Division of the U.S. DOE under contract no. DE-AC02-05-CH11231 (van der Waals heterostructures program, KCWF16).
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Presenters
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Shubhayu Chatterjee
- University of California, Berkeley