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Recently, it was experimentally realized that 2D superconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as gated MoS$_2$ and monolayer NbSe$_2$ have in-plane upper critical magnetic fields much higher than the Pauli limit. This is due…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-19 Ryohei Wakatsuki , K. T. Law

In monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), electrons in opposite $K$ valleys are subject to opposite effective Zeeman fields, which are referred to as Ising spin-orbit coupling (SOC) fields. The Ising SOC, originated from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-11 Benjamin T. Zhou , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Hong-Liang Jiang , K. T. Law

Systems that simultaneously exhibit superconductivity and spin-orbit coupling are predicted to provide a route toward topological superconductivity and unconventional electron pairing, driving significant contemporary interest in these…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold relevance for spin-triplet superconducting phases due to their inherent Ising spin-orbit coupling, but the majority of studies have so far focused on oversimplified models. In this work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-30 Florian Kayatz , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MX2 (M=W, Mo, Nb, and X=Te, Se, S) with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) possess plenty of novel physics including superconductivity. Due to the Ising SOC, monolayer NbSe$_2$ and…

Recently it was discovered that superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is strongly affected by an out-of-plane spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In addition, new techniques of fabricating 2d ferromagnets on van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Szczepan Głodzik , Teemu Ojanen

Recently, Ising superconductors which possess in-plane upper critical fields much larger than the Pauli limit field are under intense experimental study. Many monolayer or few layer transition metal dichalcogenides are shown to be Ising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-13 Wen-Yu He , Benjamin T. Zhou , James J. He , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Ting Zhang , K. T. Law

Superconducting layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) stand out among other superconductors due to the tunable nature of the superconducting transition, coexistence with other collective electronic excitations (charge density…

The presence of a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure and in-plane mirror symmetry allows an Ising spin-orbit coupling to form in some two-dimensional materials. Examples include transition metal dichalcogenide superconductors like…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-04 Subhojit Roy , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Shantanu Mukherjee

Recent discovery of Ising superconductivity protected against in-plane magnetic field by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has stimulated intensive research interests. The effect, however, was only expected to appear in two-dimensional (2D)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-25 Chong Wang , Biao Lian , Xiaomi Guo , Jiahao Mao , Zetao Zhang , Ding Zhang , Bing-Lin Gu , Yong Xu , Wenhui Duan

A variety of experimental observations in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide superconductors with Ising spin-orbit coupling suggest the presence of an unconventional superconducting pairing mechanism. Some of these experiments…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-05 Subhojit Roy , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen , Shantanu Mukherjee

Van der Waals heterostructures provide a versatile platform for tailoring electronic properties through the integration of two-dimensional materials. Among these combinations, the interaction between bilayer graphene and transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 M. Masseroni , M. Gull , A. Panigrahi , N. Jacobsen , F. Fischer , C. Tong , J. D. Gerber , M. Niese , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , L. Levitov , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , H. Duprez

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a branch of two-dimensional materials which in addition to having an easy-to-exfoliate layered structure, also host semiconducting, metallic, superconducting, and topological properties in various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-25 Suvodeep Paul , Saswata Talukdar , Ravi Shankar Singh , Surajit Saha

We study possible superconducting states in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers, assuming an on-site pairing potential that includes both intra- and inter-orbital terms. We find that if the mirror symmetry with respect to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-24 Gilad Margalit , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

Molybdenum disulphide (MoS$_2$) has attracted much interest in recent years due to its potential applications in a new generation of electronic devices. Recently, it was shown that thin films of MoS$_2$ can become superconducting with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-05 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Kin Fai Mak , K. T. Law

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been attracting significant interest due to a range of properties, such as layer-dependent inversion symmetry, valley-contrasted Berry curvatures, and strong spin-orbit coupling…

Motivated by the fact that the measured critical field $H_{c2}$ in various transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductors is poorly understood, we reexamine its scaling behavior with temperature and spin-orbit coupling (SOC). By…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-11 Lena Engström , Ludovica Zullo , Tristan Cren , Andrej Mesaros , Pascal Simon

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a promising class of materials for spintronics, with the aim of promoting efficient spin-charge conversion (SCC) in TMD/ferromagnet (FM)-based devices. The MoTe$_2$ semimetal with…

Cross-plane thermal conductivity in homogeneous transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibits a strong dependence on twist angle, originating from atomic reconstruction within moir\'e superlattices. This reconstruction redistributes…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-02 Wenwu Jiang , Ting Liang , Hekai Bu , Jianbin Xu , Wengen Ouyang

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) lifts molecular orbital degeneracy, enabling bi-level electronic platforms suitable for next-generation digital devices. However, common light-atom molecular feedstocks exhibit weak SOC due to the absence of heavy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-07 Zihao Wang , Wan-Lu Li , Shaowei Li
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