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Graphene has exhibited a wealth of fascinating properties, but is also known not to be a superconductor. Remarkably, we show that graphene can be made a conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductor by the combined effect of charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-13 Chen Si , Zheng Liu , Wenhui Duan , Feng Liu

A purely electronic mechanism is proposed for the unconventional superconductivity recently observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) close to the magic angle. Using the Migdal-Eliashberg framework on a one parameter effective lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Gargee Sharma , Maxim Trushin , Oleg P. Sushkov , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

The authors report on synthesis and thermal properties of the electrically-conductive thermal interface materials with the hybrid graphene-metal particle fillers. The thermal conductivity of resulting composites was increased by ~500% in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vivek Goyal , Alexander A. Balandin

We report on the first measurement of the thermal conductivity of a suspended single layer graphene. The measurements were performed using a non-contact optical technique. The near room-temperature values of the thermal conductivity in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-15 A. A. Balandin , S. Ghosh , W. Bao , I. Calizo , D. Teweldebrhan , F. Miao , C. N. Lau

Unique to certain unconventional superconductors is the coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity. We have previously found ferromagnetism and superconductivity in hydrogenated graphitic materials. Herein we present similar as well as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-20 Nadina Gheorghiu , Charles R. Ebbing , Timothy J. Haugan

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Oscar E. Casas , Shirley Gómez Páez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

We review experimental results, from transport to magnetization measurements, on different graphite samples, from bulk oriented graphite, thin graphite films to transmission electron microscope lamellae, that indicate the existence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-17 Pablo Esquinazi

We present a theoretical analysis of the proximity effect at a graphene-superconductor interface. We use a tight-binding model for the electronic states in this system which allows to describe the interface at the microscopic level. Two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Burset , A. L. Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero

We propose a mechanism for robust BCS-like superconductivity in graphene placed in the vicinity of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Electrons in the graphene interact with the excitations above the condensate, called Bogoliubov quasiparticles…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-29 M. Sun , A. V. Parafilo , K. H. A. Villegas , V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

The superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of a single layer graphene coupled to an Indium oxide (InO) film, a low carrier-density superconductor, is found to increase with decreasing carrier density and is largest close to the average…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-20 Gopi Nath Daptary , Udit Khanna , Eyal Walach , Arnab Roy , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

Room temperature superconductivity under normal conditions has been a major challenge of physics and material science since its very discovery. Here we report the global room-temperature superconductivity observed in cleaved highly oriented…

We analyze a possible superconductivity in the hole-doped system of layered hydrogenized graphene by taking into account thermal fluctuations of the order parameter. In particular, we demonstrate that in the one-layer case the values of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 V. M. Loktev , V. Turkowski

We show that the Higgs mode of a superconductor, which is usually challenging to observe by far-field optics, can be made clearly visible using near-field optics by harnessing ultraconfined graphene plasmons. As near-field sources we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 A. T. Costa , P. A. D. Gonçalves , D. N. Basov , Frank H. L. Koppens , N. Asger Mortensen , N. M. R. Peres

Using density functional theory we investigate the occurrence of superconductivity in AC$_6$ with A=Mg,Ca,Sr,Ba. We predict that at zero pressure, Ba and Sr should be superconducting with critical temperatures (T$_c$) 0.2 K and 3.0 K,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We investigate the thermal conductivity of suspended graphene as a function of the density of defects, ND, introduced in a controllable way. Graphene layers are synthesized using chemical vapor deposition, transferred onto a transmission…

The appearance of topologically protected states at the surface of an ordinary insulator is a rare occurrence and to date only a handful of materials are known for having this property. An intriguing question concerns the possibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Igor Popov , Mauro Mantega , Awadhesh Narayan , Stefano Sanvito

Superconductivity is traditionally viewed as a low-temperature phenomenon. Within the BCS theory this is understood to result from the fact that the pairing of electrons takes place only close to the usually two-dimensional Fermi surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Tero T. Heikkila , Grigori E. Volovik

Unconventional superconductors have been long sought for their potential applications in quantum technologies and devices. A key challenge impeding this effort is the difficulty associated with probing and characterizing candidate materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Jonathan B. Curtis , Nicholas R. Poniatowski , Amir Yacoby , Prineha Narang

We present a theory for the pseudo-gap state recently observed at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface, based on superconducting islands embedded in a metallic background. Superconductivity within each island is BCS-like, and the local critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-18 D. Bucheli , S. Caprara , M. Grilli