Unconventional Self-Similar Hofstadter Superconductivity from Repulsive Interactions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13116v2
• Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:37:48 GMT
• Title: Unconventional Self-Similar Hofstadter Superconductivity from Repulsive Interactions
• Authors: Daniel Shaffer, Jian Wang, Luiz H. Santos
• Abstract summary: We show that a tunable manifold of Van Hove singularities provides a new mechanism for driving unconventional superconductivity in Hofstadter bands. Our results establish Hofstadter quantum materials as promising platforms for realizing novel reentrant Hofstadter superconductors.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Fractal Hofstadter bands have become widely accessible with the advent of moir\'e superlattices, opening the door to studies of the effect of interactions in these systems. In this work we employ a renormalization group (RG) analysis to demonstrate that the combination of repulsive interactions with the presence of a tunable manifold of Van Hove singularities provides a new mechanism for driving unconventional superconductivity in Hofstadter bands. Specifically, the number of Van Hove singularities at the Fermi energy can be controlled by varying the flux per unit cell and the electronic filling, leading to instabilities toward nodal superconductivity and chiral topological superconductivity with Chern number $\mathcal{C} = \pm 6$. The latter is characterized by a self-similar fixed trajectory of the RG flow and an emerging self-similarity symmetry of the order parameter. Our results establish Hofstadter quantum materials such as moir\'e heterostructures as promising platforms for realizing novel reentrant Hofstadter superconductors.

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