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Salahudin V. Smailagić

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

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 ($ν=3$ 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 ($ν\approx1$) leads to weak-coupling superconductors with various pairing symmetries, while slight electron- and hole-doping ($ν\approx2,4$) 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.

cond-mat.supr-con↗

Superconductivity and magnetism in bilayer nickelates: itinerant perspective

We study superconductivity and magnetism in bilayer nickelates from an itinerant perspective. Starting from a tight binding fit to recent ARPES measurements on compressively strained thin films, we incorporate the standard set of onsite repulsive interactions among partially filled $e_g$ orbitals: intra-orbital $U$, inter-orbital $U'$, Hund's coupling $J_H$ and a pair hopping $J_P$. We obtain the effective pairing interaction by dressing these bare interactions with particle-hole fluctuations via the RPA. In the strong Hund's coupling regime, we find that $s$-wave superconductivity and $(π/2, π/2)$ SDW order are the favored ground states. With weaker Hund's coupling, we find that $d$-wave pairing and $(π, π)$ SDW are the leading ground states. Our results are qualitatively consistent with earlier DMRG studies, and point to the key role played by Hund's coupling in determining the nature of superconductivity and magnetism in this system.

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