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Superconductivity, correlated insulators, and Wess-Zumino-Witten terms in twisted bilayer graphene
Maine Christos1, Subir Sachdev2, Mathias S Scheurer2,3
1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138.
Abstract:
Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have shown a high-temperature parent state with massless Dirac fermions and broken electronic flavor symmetry; superconductivity and correlated insulators emerge from this parent state at lower temperatures. We propose that the superconducting and correlated insulating orders are connected by Wess-Zumino-Witten terms, so that defects of one order contain quanta of another order and skyrmion fluctuations of the correlated insulator are a "mechanism" for superconductivity. We present a comprehensive listing of plausible low-temperature orders and the parent flavor symmetry-breaking orders. The previously characterized topological nature of the band structure of twisted bilayer graphene plays an important role in this analysis.
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