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Interaction-driven charge textures and unconventional superconductivity in strained monolayer graphene

arXiv:2507.00112 · doi:10.1103/q528-6vj2

Abstract

Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity. While twisted moiré systems, like twisted bilayer graphene, have revealed such states, they remain complex to control. Here, we study monolayer graphene under uniaxial periodic strain, which forms a quasi-one-dimensional moiré lattice that hosts two flat sublattice-polarized bands. When electron-electron interactions are included at the self-consistent Hartree level, we find features familiar from moiré flat-band systems, such as Fermi-level pinning to the Van Hove singularity and a Kohn-Luttinger-like pairing instability. In addition, we find strong interband enhancement of the pairing scale and higher-energy metastable electrostatic textures in enlarged supercells, with charge localized in selected regions of multiple unit cells.

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