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Recently, superconductivity was discovered at very low densities in slightly misaligned graphene multilayers. Surprisingly, despite extremely low electronic density (about $10^{-4}$ electrons per unit cell), these systems realize…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Ivar Martin

Recently, exotic superconductivity emerging from a spin-and-valley-polarized metallic phase has been discovered in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene. To explain this observation, we study the role of electron-electron interactions in driving…

We propose a minimal model starting from a parent Chern band with quartic dispersion that can describe the spin-valley polarized electrons in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene. The interplay between repulsive and attractive interactions on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-15 Yan-Qi Wang , Zhi-Qiang Gao , Hui Yang

Built on a realistic multiband tight-binding model, mirror symmetry is used to map a calcium-intercalated bilayer graphene Hamiltonian into two independent single layer graphene-like Hamiltonians with renormalized hopping. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-03 Rouhollah Gholami , Rostam Moradian , Sina Moradian , Warren E. Pickett

The nature of the coupling leading to superconductivity in layered materials such as high-Tc superconductors and graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) is still unresolved. In both systems, interactions of electrons with either phonons or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-24 Jessica L. McChesney , Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Konstantin V. Emtsev , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Eli Rotenberg

Combining mean-field and renormalization group analyses, here we unveil the nature of recently observed superconductivity and parent metallic states in chemically doped rhombohedral trilayer graphene, subject to external electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Andras Szabo , Bitan Roy

Using large-scale dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we explore the unconventional superconductivity in the hole-doped Hubbard model on the triangular lattice. Due to the interplay of electronic correlations, geometric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-09 Kuang Shing Chen , Zi Yang Meng , Unjong Yu , Shuxiang Yang , Mark Jarrell , Juana Moreno

Making devices with graphene necessarily involves making contacts with metals. We use density functional theory to study how graphene is doped by adsorption on metal substrates and find that weak bonding on Al, Ag, Cu, Au and Pt, while…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Giovannetti , P. A. Khomyakov , G. Brocks , V. M. Karpan , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity typically compete with each other since the internal magnetic field generated in a magnet suppresses the formation of spin-singlet Cooper pairs in conventional superconductors. Only a handful of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Eslam Khalaf , Jong Yeon Lee , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Philip Kim

We show that the $e$-$e$ interaction induces a strong breakdown of valley symmetry for each spin channel in twisted trilayer graphene, leading to a ground state where the two spin projections have opposite sign of the valley symmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-02 J. Gonzalez , T. Stauber

Motivated by recent experimental observations of correlated metallic phases and superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene (RTG), we perform an unbiased study of electronic ordering instabilities in hole-doped RTG. Specifically, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-08 Da-Chuan Lu , Taige Wang , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Yi-Zhuang You

A chiral time-reversal symmetry breaking (d+id)-wave superconducting state is likely to emerge in graphene doped close to the Van Hove singularity. As heavy doping procedures are expected to introduce defects, we here investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-10 Tomas Löthman , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

We present a theory of superconducting pairing originating from soft critical fluctuations near isospin-polarized states in rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Using a symmetry-based approach, we determine possible isospin order types and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-10 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

We propose a way to generate a one-dimensional topological superconductor from a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide coupled to a Bernal-stacked bilayer of graphene under a displacement field. With proper gating, this structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel Skliannyi , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern

Electron doped rhombohedral multilayer graphene at high displacement field features an exceptionally flat band minimum with near-ideal quantum geometry. Experiments in this regime observe the formation of a 'quarter metal,' in which the…

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

We show that the intrinsic chiral $d_{x^2-y^2} \pm id_{xy}$-wave superconducting pairing in doped graphene is significantly strengthened in the core region of a doubly quantized s-wave superconducting vortex produced in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-11 Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Recent experiments indicate that crystalline graphene multilayers exhibit much of the richness of their twisted counterparts, including cascades of symmetry-broken states and unconventional superconductivity. Interfacing Bernal bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Jin Ming Koh , Jason Alicea , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise

A striking series of experiments have observed superconductivity in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG) when the energy bands are flattened by applying an electrical displacement field. Intriguingly, superconductivity manifests only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-03 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran