Exactly solvable pair-density wave in topological flat bands from magnetic translation symmetries

Abstract

Pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors are exotic phases in which Cooper pairs carry finite center-of-mass momentum. Despite a variety of theoretical and experimental reports on PDW states, exact PDW ground states in topological bands have remained elusive. Here we construct exactly solvable models with PDW ground states in topological flat bands using a generalized version of the recently proposed quantum geometric nesting (QGN) framework. Our construction broadly applies to systems with non-commuting magnetic translation symmetries (MTS) and time-reversal symmetry, exemplified by the time-reversal invariant version of the Kapit-Mueller model with two ideal flat Chern bands with opposite Chern number. Our construction thus provides a platform for further studies of band topology and quantum geometry in PDW superconductors.