Topological chiral superconductivity with spontaneous vortices and supercurrent in twisted bilayer graphene

Abstract

We study $d$-wave superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and reveal phenomena that arise due to the moiré superlattice. In the $d$-wave pairing, the relative motion (RM) of two electrons in a Cooper pair can have either $d+id$ or $d-id$ symmetry with opposite angular momenta. Due to the enlarged moiré superlattice, the center-of-mass motion (COMM) can also carry a finite angular momentum while preserving the moiré periodicity. By matching the total angular momentum, which has contributions from both the RM and the COMM, Cooper pairs with $d+id$ and $d-id$ RMs are intrinsically coupled in a way such that the COMM associated with one of the RMs has a spontaneous vortex-antivortex lattice configuration. Another phenomenon is that the chiral $d$-wave state carries spontaneous bulk circulating supercurrent. The chiral $d$-wave superconductors are gapped and also topological as characterized by an integer Chern number. Nematic $d$-wave superconductors, which could be stabilized, for example, by uniaxial strain, are gapless with point nodes.

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