Spin-Twisted Optical Lattices: Tunable Flat Bands and Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superfluids

Xi-Wang Luo and Chuanwei Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103201 – Published 8 March 2021
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Abstract

Moiré superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate Moiré physics emerging from twisting two independent hexagonal optical lattices of atomic (pseudo-)spin states (instead of bilayers) that exhibit remarkably different physics from twisted bilayer graphene. We employ a momentum-space tight-binding calculation that includes all range real-space tunnelings and show that all twist angles θ6° can become magic and support gapped flat bands. Because of the greatly enhanced density of states near the flat bands, the system can be driven to superfluidity by weak attractive interaction. Strikingly, the superfluid phase corresponds to a Larkin-Ovchinnikov state with finite momentum pairing that results from the interplay between flat bands and interspin interactions in the unique single-layer spin-twisted lattice. Our work may pave the way for exploring novel quantum phases and twistronics in cold atomic systems.

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  • Received 12 August 2020
  • Revised 20 December 2020
  • Accepted 10 February 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.103201

© 2021 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & OpticalCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Xi-Wang Luo* and Chuanwei Zhang

  • Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021, USA

  • *Corresponding author. xiwang.luo@utdallas.edu
  • Corresponding author. chuanwei.zhang@utdallas.edu

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Vol. 126, Iss. 10 — 12 March 2021

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