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arxiv: 2510.06313 · v1 · pith:NYUKFOUZnew · submitted 2025-10-07 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.supr-con

Superconductivity of Incoherent Electrons near the Relativistic Mott Transition in Twisted Dirac Materials

classification ❄️ cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con
keywords diractwistedpairingdegeneratedemonstratefluctuationsincoherentmaterials
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We demonstrate that superconductivity driven by strong quantum-critical fluctuations can emerge near relativistic Mott transitions in twisted two-dimensional materials, taking on a remarkably rich character. In twisted double-bilayer WSe$_2$, all time-reversal-even, gap-opening collective modes promote pairing, whereas time-reversal-odd modes do not. In a Dirac model of twisted bilayer graphene, the Gross-Neveu transition into inter-valley-coherent insulators gives rise to a spectrum of degenerate and nearly degenerate superconducting states. More generally, we show that the richer the Dirac structure, the more readily pairs can form. A crucial ingredient of the theory is that critical fluctuations render the electronic states strongly incoherent, allowing attractive pairing channels to overcome the bare Dirac semi-metal behavior. Finally, we demonstrate a direct relation between boson-mediated pairing and the formation of charge-carrying skyrmionic excitations in the proximate insulating state.

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