ITS Seminar with Chris Hooley (University of St Andrews, UK)

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Recent experiments on thin films of transition metal oxides and transition metal dichalcogenides have increased the incentive for improved theoretical predictions of the phase diagrams of such systems.  Spin-orbit interactions, density-of-states effects, and nesting are all important contributors, and necessitate forms of renormalization treatment that can track the feedback between multiple incipient orders.

 In this talk, I present two pieces of recent work on this topic carried out by my final-year PhD student Matt Trott and myself.  In the first [1], we analyze a model of a 2D metal with strong spin-orbit coupling near a Lifshitz (i.e. Fermi surface reconnection) transition, and show that mixed-parity superconductivity with a helical triplet component is generally expected.  In the second [2], we study a model of the Fermi surface of VSe2, and show that – as well as various superconducting phases – charge-density-wave formation is possible via a purely electronic mechanism.

[1] M. J. Trott and CAH, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013106 (2020).

[2] M. J. Trott and CAH, arXiv:2004.06665, under review at Nature Communications Physics.