# Ferromagnetism and superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene

**Authors:** Fengcheng Wu, Sankar Das Sarma

arXiv: 1906.07302 · 2020-05-01

## TL;DR

This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding the coexistence and competition of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in twisted double bilayer graphene, explaining experimental observations and predicting phase behaviors.

## Contribution

It introduces a model linking Coulomb-driven ferromagnetism and phonon-mediated superconductivity in TDBG, with calculations of transition temperatures and phase stability.

## Key findings

- Superconducting domes appear on both electron and hole sides of ferromagnetic insulator.
- Ferromagnetic insulating gap exhibits a dome shape dependence on layer potential difference.
- Half-filled ferromagnetic insulator is stable against spin and valley magnons.

## Abstract

We present a theory of competing ferromagnetic and superconducting orders in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). In our theory, ferromagnetism is induced by Coulomb repulsion, while superconductivity with intervalley equal-spin pairing can be mediated by electron-acoustic phonon interactions. We calculate the transition temperatures for ferromagnetism and superconductivity as a function of moir\'e band filling factor, and find that superconducting domes can appear on both the electron and hole sides of the ferromagnetic insulator at half filling. We show that the ferromagnetic insulating gap has a dome shape dependence on the layer potential difference, which provides an explanation to the experimental observation that the ferromagnetic insulator only develops over a finite range of external displacement field. We also verify the stability of the half-filled ferromagnetic insulator against two types of collective excitations, i.e., spin magnons and valley magnons.

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