Friedel oscillations and chiral superconductivity in monolayer NbSe2

Siegl, Julian and Bleibaum, Anton and Wan, Wen and Kurpas, Marcin and Schliemann, John and Ugeda, Miguel M. and Marganska, Magdalena and Grifoni, Milena (2025) Friedel oscillations and chiral superconductivity in monolayer NbSe2. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 16 (1): 8228. ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

The nature of the dominant pairing mechanism in some two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides is still debated. Focusing on monolayer 1H-NbSe2, we show that superconductivity can be induced by the Coulomb interaction when accounting for screening effects on the trigonal lattice with multiple orbitals. Using ab initio based tight-binding parametrizations for the relevant low-energy d-bands, we evaluate the screened interaction microscopically. In the direct space, we find pronounced Friedel oscillations, a key to the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism for superconductivity. The momentum-resolved gap equations predict at the critical temperature Tc two degenerate solutions of E '\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${E}<^>{{\prime} }$$\end{document} symmetry, signalling the unconventional nature of the pairing. Their complex linear combination, i.e., a chiral gap with p-like symmetry, provides the ground state of the model. Our prediction of a fully gapped chiral phase well below Tc is in good agreement with the spectral function extracted from tunnelling spectroscopy measurements.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: MECHANISM; GRAPHENE
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Grifoni > Group Milena Grifoni
Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Grifoni > Group John Schliemann
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2026 06:26
Last Modified: 28 Jul 2026 06:26
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/66570

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