Majorana zero modes in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides homobilayers

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Hauptverfasser: Luo, Xun-Jiang, Qiu, Wen-Xuan, Wu, Fengcheng
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author Luo, Xun-Jiang
Qiu, Wen-Xuan
Wu, Fengcheng
author_facet Luo, Xun-Jiang
Qiu, Wen-Xuan
Wu, Fengcheng
contents Semiconductor moiré superlattices provide a highly tunable platform to study the interplay between electron correlation and band topology. For example, the generalized Kane-Mele-Hubbard model can be simulated by the topological moiré flat bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides homobilayers. For this system, we obtain the filling factor, twist angle, and electric field-dependent quantum phase diagrams with a plethora of phases, including the quantum spin Hall insulator, the in-plane antiferromagnetic state, the out-of-plane antiferromagnetic Chern insulator, the spin-polarized Chern insulator, the in-plane ferromagnetic state, and the 120$^\circ$ antiferromagnetic state. We predict that a gate-defined junction formed between the quantum spin Hall insulator phase with proximitized superconductivity and magnetic phases with in-plane magnetization (either ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic) can realize one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana zero modes. Our proposal introduces semiconductor moiré homobilayers as an electrically tunable Majorana platform with no need of an external magnetic field.
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spellingShingle Majorana zero modes in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides homobilayers
Luo, Xun-Jiang
Qiu, Wen-Xuan
Wu, Fengcheng
Superconductivity
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Semiconductor moiré superlattices provide a highly tunable platform to study the interplay between electron correlation and band topology. For example, the generalized Kane-Mele-Hubbard model can be simulated by the topological moiré flat bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides homobilayers. For this system, we obtain the filling factor, twist angle, and electric field-dependent quantum phase diagrams with a plethora of phases, including the quantum spin Hall insulator, the in-plane antiferromagnetic state, the out-of-plane antiferromagnetic Chern insulator, the spin-polarized Chern insulator, the in-plane ferromagnetic state, and the 120$^\circ$ antiferromagnetic state. We predict that a gate-defined junction formed between the quantum spin Hall insulator phase with proximitized superconductivity and magnetic phases with in-plane magnetization (either ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic) can realize one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana zero modes. Our proposal introduces semiconductor moiré homobilayers as an electrically tunable Majorana platform with no need of an external magnetic field.
title Majorana zero modes in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides homobilayers
topic Superconductivity
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09707