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Inducing superconducting correlations in chiral edge states is predicted to generate topologically protected zero energy modes with exotic quantum statistics. Experimental efforts to date have focused on engineering interfaces between…

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

A characteristic feature of the BCS theory of superconductivity is the quantum-mechanical coherence of particle and hole states. Direct observation of particle-hole coherence in unusual superconducting materials is a strong indication of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-16 D. Rainer , H. Burkhardt , M. Fogelstrom , J. A. Sauls

Recent experiments have reported the surprising observation of superconductivity in flavor polarized, nearly flat bands (FBs) of rhombohedral graphene. Motivated by these findings, we introduce a class of models for single-flavor FBs with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Zhaoyu Han , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Qiang Gao , Eslam Khalaf

Graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide flat-band systems show similar phase diagrams, replete with magnetic and superconducting phases. An abiding question has been whether magnetic ordering competes with superconductivity or…

The discovery of superconductivity and correlated electronic states in the flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene has raised a lot of excitement. Flat bands also occur in multilayer graphene flakes that present rhombohedral (ABC) stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jean Paul Nery , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

Topologically protected flat surface bands make thin films of rhombohedral graphite an appealing platform for searching for strongly correlated states of 2D electrons. In this work, we study rhombohedral graphite with a twin boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Sergey Slizovskiy , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We consider a superconductor with surface suppression of the BCS pairing constant $\lambda(x)$. We analytically find the gap in the surface density of states (DOS), behavior of the DOS $\nu(E)$ above the gap, a "vertical" peculiarity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-30 Ya. V. Fominov , A. A. Mazanik , M. V. Razumovskiy

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

Inspired by the recent experimental discovery of superconductivity emerging from a time-reversal symmetry-breaking normal state in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene, we here investigate superconducting instabilities in this system. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-13 Maine Christos , Pietro M. Bonetti , Mathias S. Scheurer

In great contrast to the numerous discoveries of superconductivity in layer-stacked graphene systems, the absence of superconductivity in the simplest and cleanest monolayer graphene remains a big puzzle. Here, through realistic computation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-30 Xinyao Zhang , Ruoshi Jiang , Xingchen Shen , Xiaomo Huang , Qing-Dong Jiang , Wei Ku

Rhombohedral (ABC-stacked) multilayer graphene hosts interaction-driven phases enabled by surface flat bands at large displacement fields. In thick flakes, however, strong screening suppresses internal electric fields, raising the question…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Kryštof Kolář , Andrea F. Young , Cyprian Lewandowski

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has played an important role in many topological and correlated electron materials. In graphene-based systems, SOC induced by transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) at proximity was shown to drive topological states…

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

We theoretically study surface superconductivity in a nodal-line semimetal by combining a minimal tight-binding model with a layer-resolved Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach. In the normal state, the model realizes a bulk nodal loop and an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-23 Takeru Matsushima , Hiroki Tsuchiura

Superconductivity (SC) is a ubiquitous feature of graphite allotropes, having been observed in Bernal bilayers[1], rhombohedral trilayers[2], and a wide variety of angle-misaligned multilayers[3-6]. Despite significant differences in the…

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

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…

We show that in a two-dimensional electron gas with an annular Fermi surface, long-range Coulomb interactions can lead to unconventional superconductivity by the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. Superconductivity is strongly enhanced when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-15 Areg Ghazaryan , Tobias Holder , Maksym Serbyn , Erez Berg

Recent experiments have revealed that superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can emerge from a valley-polarized and, hence, chiral normal state. The interplay of pairing and the reduced normal-state symmetries sparked…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-21 Yinqi Chen , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade