Singlet, triplet, and pair density wave superconductivity in the doped triangular-lattice moiré system
Feng Chen, D. N. Sheng
Abstract
Recent experimental progress has established the twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) as a highly tunable platform for studying many-body physics. Particularly, the homobilayer TMDs under displacement field are believed to be described by a generalized triangular-lattice Hubbard model with a spin-dependent hopping phase $\ensuremath{\theta}$. To explore the effects of $\ensuremath{\theta}$ on the system, we perform density matrix renormalization group calculations for the relevant triangular lattice t-J model. By changing $\ensuremath{\theta}$ at small hole doping, we obtain a region of quasi-long-range superconducting order coexisting with charge and spin density wave within $0<\ensuremath{\theta}<\ensuremath{\pi}/3$. The superconductivity is composed of a dominant spin singlet $d$-wave and a subdominant triplet $p$-wave pairing. Intriguingly, the ${S}_{z}=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1$ triplet pairing components feature pair-density waves. In addition, we find a region of triplet superconductivity coexisting with charge-density wave and ferromagnetism within $\ensuremath{\pi}/3<\ensuremath{\theta}<2\ensuremath{\pi}/3$, which is related to the former phase at smaller $\ensuremath{\theta}$ by a combined operation of spin-flip and gauge transformation. Our findings provide insights and directions for experimental search for exotic superconductivity in twisted TMD systems.