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Electric field tunable unconventional superconductivity in alternating twist magic-angle trilayer graphene

Superconductivity 2021-03-16 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We construct a van der Waals heterostructure consisting of three graphene layers stacked with alternating twisting angles ±θ\pm\theta. At the average twist angle θ1.56\theta\sim 1.56^{\circ}, a theoretically predicted magic angle for the formation of flat electron bands, narrow conduction and valence moir\'e bands appear together with a linearly dispersing Dirac band. Upon doping the half-filled moir\'e valence band with holes, or the half-filled moir\'e conduction band with electrons, displacement field tunable superconductivity emerges, reaching a maximum critical temperature of 2.1 K at optimal doping and displacement field. By tuning the doping level and displacement fields, we find that superconducting regimes occur in conjunction with flavour polarization of moir\'e bands bounded by a van Hove singularity (vHS) at high displacement fields. This experimental observation is found to be inconsistent with a weak coupling description, suggesting that the observed moir\'e superconductivity has an unconventional nature.

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@article{arxiv.2012.02773,
  title  = {Electric field tunable unconventional superconductivity in alternating twist magic-angle trilayer graphene},
  author = {Zeyu Hao and A. M. Zimmerman and Patrick Ledwith and Eslam Khalaf and Danial Haie Najafabadi and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Ashvin Vishwanath and Philip Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02773},
  year   = {2021}
}

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35 pages, 14 figures. Supplementary materials added