Extended s-wave superconductivity in M-point twisted bilayer SnSe2

Abstract

We investigate the emergence of electronic order and unconventional superconductivity in M-valley moiré materials. Starting from a first-principles Wannier model of AB-stacked twisted SnSe2, we tackle the (gate-screened) long-ranged Coulomb interaction with functional renormalization group simulations resolving the momentum structure and energy scales of the leading Fermi surface instabilities. Upon doping an antiferromagnetic stripe state at half-filling ($\nu =3$ electrons per moiré unit cell) of the moiré flat bands, magnetic order gives way to unconventional superconductivity mediated by valley-selective spin fluctuations: Large hole doping ($\nu \approx 1$) leads to weak-coupling superconductors with various pairing symmetries, while slight electron- and hole-doping ($\nu \approx 2,4$) stabilizes a spin-singlet, extended s-wave state that benefits from scattering between virtual particle and hole states that are detuned from the Fermi level. These findings establish M-point moiré materials as a quantum simulation platform with phenomenological parallels to the class of iron pnictide superconductors.

8 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information