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Yi-Ming Wu1,2, Zhengzhi Wu1, Hong Yao1,3
1Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Abstract:
We theoretically explore possible orders induced by weak repulsive interactions in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (e.g., WSe_{2}) in the presence of an out-of-plane electric field. Using renormalization group analysis, we show that superconductivity survives even with the conventional van Hove singularities. We find that topological chiral superconducting states with Chern number N=1, 2, 4 (namely, p+ip, d+id, and g+ig) appear over a large parameter region with a moiré filling factor around n=1. At some special values of applied electric field and in the presence of a weak out-of-plane Zeeman field, spin-polarized pair-density-wave (PDW) superconductivity can emerge. This spin-polarized PDW state can be probed by experiments such as spin-polarized STM measuring spin-resolved pairing gap and quasiparticle interference. Moreover, the spin-polarized PDW could lead to a spin-polarized superconducting diode effect.
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