Mechanism of skyrmion condensation and pairing for twisted bi-layer graphene
arXiv:2107.00012 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.184505
Abstract
When quantum flavor Hall insulator phases of itinerant fermions are disordered by strong quantum fluctuations, the condensation of skyrmion textures of order parameter fields can lead to superconductivity. In this work, we address the mechanism of skyrmion condensation by considering the scattering between (2+1)-dimensional, Weyl fermions and hedgehog type tunneling configurations of order parameters that violate the skyrmion-number conservation law. We show the quantized, flavor Hall conductivity () controls the degeneracy of topologically protected, fermion zero-modes, localized on hedgehogs, and the overlap between zero-mode eigenfunctions or 't Hooft vertex determines the nature of pairing. We demonstrate the quantum-disordered, flavor Hall insulators with lead to different types of charge superconductivity. Some implications for the competition among flavor Hall insulators, the charge paired states in BCS and pair-density-wave channels, and the composite, charge superconductors for twisted bilayer graphene are outlined.
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