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The possibility of intrinsic superconductivity in alkali-coated graphene monolayers has been recently suggested theoretically. Here, we derive the possible pairing symmetries of a carbon honeycomb lattice and discuss their phase diagram. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-17 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

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…

Flat bands in graphitic materials emerged as a platform for realizing tunable correlated physics. As a nodal-line semimetal, rhombohedral graphite features flat drumhead surface states in the vicinity of the Dirac points, which carry a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xiaoqian Liu , Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev

Electrons with large kinetic energy have a superconducting instability for infinitesimal attractive interactions. Quenching the kinetic energy and creating a flat band renders an infinitesimal repulsive interaction the relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Alexander Lau , Timo Hyart , Carmine Autieri , Anffany Chen , Dmitry I. Pikulin

The interplay of quantum geometry and interactions determines the correlated state properties of flat bands. Here, we investigate the ideal quantum geometry (IQG), i.e., the property that the trace of quantum metric equals the Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Guodong Jiang , Tero Heikkilä , Päivi Törmä

We apply the mean-field Hartree Fock theory of gapped electronic states at charge neutrality in bilayer graphene to thin films of rhombohedral graphite with up to thirty layers. For the ground state, the order parameter (the separation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 James H. Muten , Alex J. Copeland , Edward McCann

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 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…

Designer 2D materials where the constituent layers are not aligned may result in band structures with dispersionless, "flat" bands. Twisted bilayer graphene has been found to show correlated phases as well as superconductivity related to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-03 P. Törmä , S. Peotta , B. A. Bernevig

The superconducting order parameter and LDOS spectra near an impenetrable surface are studied on the basis of selfconsistent calculations for a two band superconductor with nodeless extended s-+wave order parameter symmetry, as possibly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 A. M. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova

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

When bilayer graphene is rotationally faulted to an angle $\theta\approx 1.1^\circ$, theory predicts the formation of a flat electronic band and correlated insulating, superconducting, and ferromagnetic states have all been observed at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Yu Saito , Jingyuan Ge , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Andrea F. Young

Superconductivity is observed in rhombohedral trilayer graphene in a narrow regime between the flavor-symmetric state and the symmetry breaking phase, which cannot be described by the conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Chun Wang Chau , Shuai A. Chen , K. T. Law

Tunneling atomic force microscopy (TUNA) was used at ambient conditions to measure the current-voltage ($I$-$V$) characteristics at clean surfaces of highly oriented graphite samples with Bernal and rhombohedral stacking orders. The…

We numerically study the interplay between superconductivity and disorder on the graphene honeycomb lattice with on-site Hubbard attractive interactions U using a spatially inhomogeneous self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) approach.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-30 Ionut-Dragos Potirniche , Joseph Maciejko , Rahul Nandkishore , S. L. Sondhi

Using a numerical tight-binding approach based on the Chebyshev-Bogoliubov-de Gennes method we describe Josephson junctions made of multilayer graphene contacted by top superconducting gates. Both Bernal (ABA) and rhombohedral (ABC)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-20 W. A. Munoz , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

ABC-stacked rhombohedral graphene multilayers exhibit a wide variety of electronic ground states characterized by broken isospin symmetry and superconductivity. Recently, indirect evidence of inter-valley coherent (IVC) order has been…

Graphene moire superlattices have emerged as a platform hosting and abundance of correlated insulating, topological, and superconducting phases. While the origins of strong correlations and non-trivial topology are shown to be directly…

We study the superconducting proximity effect in inhomogeneous systems in which a disordered or quasicrystalline normal-state wire is connected to a BCS superconductor. We self-consistently compute the local superconducting order parameters…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-04 Gautam Rai , Stephan Haas , Anuradha Jagannathan

Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting states that break time reversal symmetry spontaneously and typically feature Cooper pairing at non-zero angular momentum. Such states may host Majorana fermions and provide an…