Multi-Knob Switchable Chiral Superconductivity Quartet in Rhombohedral Graphene
Abstract
Chiral superconductors break orbital time-reversal symmetry and may host topological quasiparticles with non-Abelian statistics. In rhombohedral graphene, superconductivity develops from a spin-valley-polarized quarter-metal (QM) parent state and features unique magnetic hysteresis of resistance that indicates orbital time-reversal-symmetry-breaking. Exploring and controlling the full spin-valley flavors of such superconductivity could enable novel superconducting and topological devices, but have remained unexplored. Here we report transport measurements on rhombohedral hexalayer graphene (R6G), which reveal a new superconducting state (SCH) that is induced by an out-of-plane magnetic field, in addition to chiral superconductivity (CSC) similar to those observed in thinner layers. This SCH state emerges above 0.8 T, persists up to 1.6 T and can be switched on/off by magnetic field , carrier density , and gate displacement field . Quantum oscillations and anomalous Hall measurements show that SCH stems from a field-induced quarter-metal (QM) parent phase, which carries orbital magnetization opposite to that of the zero-field QM. Across the full parameter space, superconductivity can be realized from all four spin-valley isospin flavors, establishing a switchable chiral-superconductor quartet in R6G. We interpret the parent-state switching as arising from competition between a Kane-Mele-like spin-valley splitting and magnetic-field coupling to spin-valley-dependent magnetic moments. Our work establishes rhombohedral graphene as a multi-knob platform for different isospin-polarized superconductivities, which enables programmable superconducting networks with possible Majorana modes along domain walls.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.06520,
title = {Multi-Knob Switchable Chiral Superconductivity Quartet in Rhombohedral Graphene},
author = {Zhenqi Hua and Shenyong Ye and Phatthanon Pattanakanvijit and Gang Shi and Tonghang Han and Emily Aitken and Jixiang Yang and Junseok Seo and Haoyang Liu and Ran Hao and Kaitai Xiao and Jiaxing Guo and Vo Tien Phong and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Chunli Huang and Cyprian Lewandowski and Long Ju and Peng Xiong and Zhengguang Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.06520},
year = {2026}
}