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Superconductivity arising from fully spin-polarized, repulsively interacting electrons can host intrinsically chiral Cooper pairs and Majorana zero modes, yet no concrete microscopic route to such a state has been established. Motivated by…

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In contrast to conventional Weyl semimetals in achiral crystals, chiral topological semimetals in chiral crystals exhibit Weyl nodes at time-reversal-invariant momenta. A Fermi surface spin texture with parallel spin-momentum locking in…

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Graphene's exceptional electronic mobility, gate-tunability, and contact transparency with superconducting materials make it ideal for exploring the superconducting proximity effect. However, the work function difference between graphene…

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We investigate the electronic instabilities in a Kagome lattice with Rashba spin-orbital coupling by the unbiased singular-mode functional renormalization group. At the parent $1/3$-filling, the normal state is a quantum spin Hall system.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-03 Wan-Sheng Wang , Yuan-Chun Liu , Yuan-Yuan Xiang , Qiang-Hua Wang

Silicene has been synthesized recently, with experimental evidence showing possible superconductivity in the doped case. The noncoplanar low-buckled structure of this material inspires us to study the pairing symmetry of the doped system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-10 Li-Da Zhang , Fan Yang , Yugui Yao

Using the continuum model for low energy non-interacting electronic structure of moir\'e van der Waals heterostructures developed by Bistritzer and MacDonald [1], we study the competition between spin, charge, and superconducting order in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-16 Evan Laksono , Jia Ning Leaw , Alexander Reaves , Manraaj Singh , Xinyun Wang , Shaffique Adam , Xingyu Gu

Rhombohedral graphene multilayers host various broken-symmetry metallic phases as well as superconductors whose pairing mechanism and order parameter symmetry remain unsettled. Strikingly, experiments have revealed prominent new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhiyu Dong , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Jason Alicea

We perform the variational Monte Carlo calculation for recently proposed chiral superconducting states driven by strong Coulomb interactions. We compare the resulting energetics of these electronic phases for the electron dispersion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-18 Minho Luke Kim , Abigail Timmel , Xiao-Gang Wen

A simple interlayer pair tunneling is solved exactly. We find that in the normal state spin-1/2 particle and hole excitations are gapped. But the state is an unusual metal, characterized by novel fermionic spin zero and charge +2e and -2e…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjoy K. Sarker , Philip W. Anderson

Motivated by recent discovery of correlated insulating and superconducting behavior in twisted bilayer graphene, we revisit graphene's honeycomb lattice doped close to the van Hove singularity, using the truncated unity functional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-20 Song-Jin O , Yong-Hwan Kim , Ok-Gyong Pak , Kum-Hyok Jong , Chol-Won Ri , Hak-Chol Pak

We study the superconducting phase transition, both in a graphene bilayer and in graphite. For that purpose we derive the mean-field effective potential for a stack of graphene layers presenting hopping between adjacent sheets. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , E. C. Marino , A. L. Mota

In conventional superconductors, superconductivity is generally suppressed by external magnetic fields due to spin-singlet pairing. Here, we report signatures of in-plane-magnetic-field-induced superconductivity in hexalayer rhombohedral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jinghao Deng , Jiabin Xie , Hongyuan Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak , Xiaomeng Liu

We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion $\varepsilon \sim k^4$, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Minho Kim , Abigail Timmel , Long Ju , Xiao-Gang Wen

By means of first-principles calculations, we predict two new types of partially hydrogenated graphene systems: C$_{6}$H$_{1}$ and C$_{6}$H$_{5}$, which are shown to be ferromagnetic (FM) semimetal and FM narrow-gap semiconductor,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 Hong-Yan Lu , Lei Hao , Rui Wang , C. S. Ting

The emergence of chiral superconductivity from strongly correlated Mott regimes in purely repulsive, genuinely two-dimensional fermionic systems poses a key challenge, particularly when topology and superconducting long-range order must be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Sen Niu , D. N. Sheng , Yang Peng

We show that chiral superconductivity can be stabilized by hole doping a Chern ferromagnet. Performing exact diagonalization and density-matrix-renormalization-group calculations on the repulsive Kane-Mele-Hubbard model at hole doping…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Miguel Gonçalves , Kun Yang , Shi-Zeng Lin

Insight into why superconductivity in pristine and doped monolayer graphene seems strongly suppressed has been central for the recent years' various creative approaches to realize superconductivity in graphene and graphene-like systems. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-12 Even Thingstad , Akashdeep Kamra , Justin W. Wells , Asle Sudbø

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…

Twisted bilayer graphene displays insulating and superconducting phases caused by exceptional flattening of its lowest energy bands. Superconductivity with highest $T_c$ appears at hole and electron dopings, near half-filling for valence or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-29 Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Laura Classen , Andrey V. Chubukov

Graphene is at the forefront of condensed matter sciences, because of a variety of interesting phenomena it supports. If graphene could support high Tc superconductivity, after doping for example, it will make it even more valuable. Some…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Sandeep Pathak , Vijay B. Shenoy , G. Baskaran