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arxiv: 1107.1903 · v2 · pith:ZA4HUIHKnew · submitted 2011-07-10 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.supr-con

Chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.supr-con
keywords superconductivitychiralgrapheneinteractionsrepulsivedopeddopingfermi
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We identify graphene as a system where chiral superconductivity can be realized. Chiral superconductivity involves a pairing gap that winds in phase around the Fermi surface, breaking time reversal symmetry. We consider a unique situation arising in graphene at a specific level of doping, where the density of states is singular, strongly enhancing the critical temperature T_c. At this doping level, the Fermi surface is nested, allowing superconductivity to emerge from repulsive electron-electron interactions. We show using a renormalization group method that superconductivity dominates over all competing orders for any choice of weak repulsive interactions. Superconductivity develops in a doubly degenerate, spin singlet channel, and a mean field calculation indicates that the superconductivity is of a chiral d+id type. We therefore predict that doped graphene can provide experimental realization of spin-singlet chiral superconductivity.

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