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Evolution from intralayer to interlayer superconductivity in a bilayer t-J-J⊥ ladder

Yuan Yang, Xin Lu, Yuan Wan, Wei-Qiang Chen, and Shou-Shu Gong

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 25 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/hhh7-fb39

Abstract

Motivated by the bilayer cuprate superconductors and nickelate superconductor La3Ni2O7, we investigate the evolution from intralayer to interlayer superconductivity in finite-width bilayer t-J-J⊥ ladders, where t is the in-plane electron hopping, J is the in-plane spin interaction, and J⊥ is the inter-plane spin interaction. By means of the density matrix renormalization group calculations, we map out the quantum phase diagram of the bilayer two-leg ladders by tuning J⊥ in a large doping range δ=1/8−1/2. We find that a large J⊥ can always drive an interlayer superconductivity by coupling the two layers in both the Luther-Emery liquid and Luttinger liquid states. By coupling two Luther-Emery liquid states, the in-plane superconductivity evolves to inter-plane superconductivity either through an intermediate charge density wave (CDW) phase or directly, depending on doping ratio. This emergent CDW phase, which exists over a finite doping range, appears to develop from the CDW state of the two-leg ladder at δ=1/4. By coupling two Luttinger liquids, the in-plane Luttinger liquids show a transition to the inter-plane superconducting phase at large J⊥, as reported in previous literature. Interestingly, in the intermediate J⊥ regime we find that while the in-plane Luttinger-liquid features remain stable, the inter-plane superconductivity can develop an enhanced quasi-long-range order with the power exponent $K^{zz}_{\rm SC} \sim 1$. At last, we show that the interlayer superconductivity is also stable by coupling the bilayer three-leg t-J ladders by a strong J⊥ interaction, from both the Luther-Emery liquid and Luttinger-liquid states.

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