In-plane magnetic response and Maki parameter of alternating-twist multilayers

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Auteurs principaux: Vasilevskiy, Igor, Sánchez, Miguel Sánchez, Challaouy, Khadija, Margetis, Dionisios, Gómez-Santos, Guillermo, Stauber, Tobias
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author Vasilevskiy, Igor
Sánchez, Miguel Sánchez
Challaouy, Khadija
Margetis, Dionisios
Gómez-Santos, Guillermo
Stauber, Tobias
author_facet Vasilevskiy, Igor
Sánchez, Miguel Sánchez
Challaouy, Khadija
Margetis, Dionisios
Gómez-Santos, Guillermo
Stauber, Tobias
contents We analytically study the orbital response of alternating-twist graphene systems with four and five layers to an in-plane magnetic field, using the unitary transformation introduced by Khalaf et al. (Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019)). This transformation maps an alternating-twist N-layer system onto N/2 decoupled twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) systems with distinct effective twist angles, together with a single decoupled layer for odd N, thereby generating a hierarchy of N/2 magic angles. For five layers, we find that the orbital in-plane magnetic response is negligibly small, and we expect this property to hold for all systems with an odd number of layers. For a tetralayer system, we approximately express the in-plane orbital susceptibility in terms of the corresponding TBG responses, which are large compared to the spin susceptibility and even diverge in the clean limit at charge neutrality near the magic angle. Remarkably, the in-plane magnetic response is strongly angle dependent: compared with TBG, it is about 0.01 times smaller at the first magic angle, whereas at the second it reaches about 3.6 times the value of magic angle TBG. We finally introduce the in-plane Maki parameter as the ratio between the difference in orbital susceptibility of the normal and superconducting states and the paramagnetic Pauli susceptibility. For TBG, we find values up to 2 near the magic angle. Our analysis can be extended to other response functions and suggests that the different effective magic angles in alternating-twist multilayers may host distinct superconducting phases.
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spellingShingle In-plane magnetic response and Maki parameter of alternating-twist multilayers
Vasilevskiy, Igor
Sánchez, Miguel Sánchez
Challaouy, Khadija
Margetis, Dionisios
Gómez-Santos, Guillermo
Stauber, Tobias
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We analytically study the orbital response of alternating-twist graphene systems with four and five layers to an in-plane magnetic field, using the unitary transformation introduced by Khalaf et al. (Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019)). This transformation maps an alternating-twist N-layer system onto N/2 decoupled twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) systems with distinct effective twist angles, together with a single decoupled layer for odd N, thereby generating a hierarchy of N/2 magic angles. For five layers, we find that the orbital in-plane magnetic response is negligibly small, and we expect this property to hold for all systems with an odd number of layers. For a tetralayer system, we approximately express the in-plane orbital susceptibility in terms of the corresponding TBG responses, which are large compared to the spin susceptibility and even diverge in the clean limit at charge neutrality near the magic angle. Remarkably, the in-plane magnetic response is strongly angle dependent: compared with TBG, it is about 0.01 times smaller at the first magic angle, whereas at the second it reaches about 3.6 times the value of magic angle TBG. We finally introduce the in-plane Maki parameter as the ratio between the difference in orbital susceptibility of the normal and superconducting states and the paramagnetic Pauli susceptibility. For TBG, we find values up to 2 near the magic angle. Our analysis can be extended to other response functions and suggests that the different effective magic angles in alternating-twist multilayers may host distinct superconducting phases.
title In-plane magnetic response and Maki parameter of alternating-twist multilayers
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18194