Band Renormalization, Quarter Metals, and Chiral Superconductivity in Rhombohedral Tetralayer Graphene
Recently, exotic superconductivity emerging from a spin-and-valley-polarized metallic phase has been discovered in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene. To explain this observation, we study the role of electron-electron interactions in driving flavor symmetry breaking, using the Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation, and in stabilizing superconductivity mediated by repulsive interactions. Though mean-field HF correctly predicts the isospin flavors and reproduces the experimental phase diagram, it overestimates the band renormalization near the Fermi energy and suppresses superconducting instabilities. To address this, we introduce a physically motivated scheme that includes internal screening in the HF calculation. Using this formalism, we find superconductivity arising from the spin-valley polarized phase, on the electron-doped side, for a range of electric fields and electron dopings. Our findings reproduce the experimental observations and reveal a p-wave, finite-momentum, time-reversal-symmetry-broken superconducting state, encouraging further investigation into exotic phases in graphene multilayers.
Authors
- Daniel Kaplan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3957-0030)
- Alejandro Jimeno‐Pozo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6270-7066)
- Pierre A. Pantaleón (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-7868)
- Peleg Emanuel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4503-6715)
- F. Guinea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-5427)
- Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0483-5334)
- Võ Tiến Phong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3353-9873)
- Héctor Sainz-Cruz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4791-0143)
- Yuval Oreg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8753-8468)
- Guillermo Parra‐Martínez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1595-2042)
Institutions
- Florida State University (US)
- IMDEA Nanoscience (ES)
- Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (NL)
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (US)
- Donostia International Physics Center (ES)
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-09-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/zfmh-rjzc
- Citations
- 10
- Primary Topic
- Graphene research and applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.18