Spin-triplet superconductivity from excitonic effect in doped insulators

Significance We present a mechanism for unconventional superconductivity in doped band insulators, where short-ranged pairing interaction arises from Coulomb repulsion due to virtual interband or excitonic processes. Remarkably, electron pairing is found upon infinitesimal doping, givin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Crépel, Valentin, Fu, Liang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141856