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We show that the topologically protected flat band emerging on a surface of a nodal fermionic system promotes the surface superconductivity due to an infinitely large density of states associated with the flat band. The critical temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 N. B. Kopnin , T. T. Heikkilä , G. E. Volovik

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has recently emerged as a rich platform for studying correlation driven magnetic, topological and superconducting states. While most experimental efforts have focused on devices with N$\leq 9$ layers, the…

Surface superconductivity in rhombohedral graphite is a robust phenomenon which can exist even when higher order hoppings between the layers lift the topological protection of the surface flat band and introduce a quadratic dispersion of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-13 N. B. Kopnin , M. Ijäs , A. Harju , T. T. Heikkilä

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

Superconductivity with transition temperature $T_c=1.7$ K has been reported in bilayer graphene [1,2]. The main factors, which may shed light on the mechanism of the formation of this superconductivity, are the following. Superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-22 G. E. Volovik

The problem of supercurrent in superconducting graphene is revisited and the supercurrent is calculated within the mean-field model employing the two-component wave functions on a honeycomb lattice with pairing between different valleys in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-04 N. B. Kopnin , E. B. Sonin

We show that rhombohedral graphite may support surface superconductivity with an unusual relation between the BCS coupling constant and the order parameter. This feature results from the properties of the states localized on the graphite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-15 N. B. Kopnin , T. T. Heikkila

We consider superconducting properties of a two-dimensional Dirac material such as graphene under strain that produces a flat band spectrum in the normal state. We show that in the superconducting state, such a model results in a highly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-22 V. J. Kauppila , F. Aikebaier , T. T. Heikkilä

Superconductivity in single-layer graphene has attracted considerable interest. Here, using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, we study transitions of superconductivity and magnetism in a monolayer graphene with a special periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Jingyao Meng , Runyu Ma , Tianxing Ma , Hai-Qing Lin

We report the observation of superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene electrostatically doped with holes. Superconductivity occurs in two distinct regions within the space of gate-tuned charge carrier density and applied electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Haoxin Zhou , Tian Xie , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Andrea F. Young

Crystalline rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) has emerged as an ideal platform for studying unconventional superconductivity. Here, we report the observation of superconductivity in moir\'eless rhombohedral heptalayer graphene (RHG) at…

Within the BCS theory of superconductivity we calculate the superconducting gap at zero temperature for metallic hydrogen-graphene system in order to estimate the superconducting critical temperature of quasi two dimensional highly oriented…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-11 N. García , P. Esquinazi

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene has triggered a resurgence of interest in flat-band superconductivity. Here, we investigate the square-octagon lattice, which also exhibits two perfectly flat bands when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-08 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , Cristiane Morais Smith

In the last 43 years several hints were reported suggesting the existence of granular superconductivity above room temperature in different graphite-based systems. In this paper some of the results are reviewed, giving special attention to…

Magnetic fields typically suppress superconductivity once the Zeeman energy exceeds the pairing gap, unless mechanisms such as unconventional pairing, strong spin-orbit coupling, or intrinsic magnetism intervene. Several graphene platforms…

Intrinsic rhombohedral graphene hosts an unusual low-energy electronic wavefunction, predominantly localized at its outer crystal faces with negligible presence in the bulk. Increasing the number of graphene layers amplifies the density of…

The topological electronic structure of crystalline materials often gives rise to intriguing surface states, such as Dirac surface states in topological insulators, Fermi arc surface states in Dirac semimetals, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Wenqiang Zhou , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer graphene has generated tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer coupling and a moir\'e superlattice that gives rise…

We analyze the properties of flat-band superconductor junctions that behave differently from ordinary junctions containing only metals with Fermi surfaces. In particular, we show how in the tunneling limit the critical Josephson current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-08 P. Virtanen , R. P. S. Penttilä , P. Törmä , A. Díez-Carlón , D. K. Efetov , T. T. Heikkilä

We study the emergence of superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene due purely to the long-range Coulomb repulsion. This repulsive-interaction-driven phase in rhombohedral trilayer graphene is significantly different from those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Vo Tien Phong , Francisco Guinea
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