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Magic angle twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) has recently emerged as a new platform to engineer strongly correlated flat bands. Here, we reveal the structural and electronic properties of TTG using low temperature scanning tunneling…

Moir\'e superlattices that consist of two or more layers of two-dimensional materials stacked together with a small twist angle have emerged as a tunable platform to realize various correlated and topological phases, such as Mott…

Graphene is the physical realization of many fundamental concepts and phenomena in solid state-physics, but in the long list of graphene remarkable properties, a fundamental block is missing: superconductivity. Making graphene…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-20 Gianni Profeta , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

Unique to certain unconventional superconductors is the coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity. We have previously found ferromagnetism and superconductivity in hydrogenated graphitic materials. Herein we present similar as well as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-20 Nadina Gheorghiu , Charles R. Ebbing , Timothy J. Haugan

We obtain the superfluid weight and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperature for highly unconventional superconducting states with the coexistence of chiral d-wave superconductivity, charge density waves and pair density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-05 Feng Xu , Lei Zhang , Liyun Jiang , Wendeng Huang , Chung-Yu Mou

We review the theoretical model underpinning the recently reported room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductivity along line defects on the surface of highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite. The main ingredients for this 1D…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-10 Carlo A. Trugenberger

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to have disorder in its twist angle. We show that in terms of a Dirac equation with a random gauge potential ${\bf A}({\bf r})$ this disorder becomes huge when the average twist angle is near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Baruch Horovitz , Pierre Le Doussal

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts nearly flat bands with narrow bandwidths of a few meV at certain {\em magic} twist angles. Here we show that in twisted gapped Dirac material bilayers, or massive twisted bilayer graphenes (MTBG),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Srivani Javvaji , Jinhua Sun , Jeil Jung

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has recently emerged as a rich platform for studying correlation driven magnetic, topological and superconducting states. While most experimental efforts have focused on devices with N$\leq 9$ layers, the…

We present a theory of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene in which attraction is generated between electrons on the same honeycomb sublattice when the system is close to a sublattice polarization instability. The resulting Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Chunli Huang , Nemin Wei , Wei Qin , Allan MacDonald

Motivated by the recent experimental detection of superconductivity in Bernal bilayer (AB) and rhombohedral trilayer (ABC) graphene, we study the emergence of superconductivity in multilayer graphene based on a Kohn-Luttinger (KL)-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Ziyan Li , Xueheng Kuang , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea

Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene shows a wide range of correlated phases which are electrostatically tunable. Despite a growing knowledge of the material, there is yet no consensus on the microscopic mechanisms driving its…

The unexpected discovery of superconductivity and strong electron correlation in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a system containing only sp electrons, is considered as one of the most intriguing developments in two-dimensional materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Wei-Chen Wang , Feng-Wu Chen , Kuan-Sen Lin , Justin T. Hou , Ho-Chun Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

The crystal structure of a material creates a periodic potential that electrons move through giving rise to the electronic band structure of the material. When two-dimensional materials are stacked, the twist angle between the layers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-07 Zhiming Zhang , Yimeng Wang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Keiji Ueno , Emanuel Tutuc , Brian J. LeRoy

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

Unlike in conventional semiconductors, both the chemical potential and the band gap in bilayer graphene (BLG) can be tuned via application of external electric field. Among numerous device implications, this property also designates BLG as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Dominik Suszalski , Grzegorz Rut , Adam Rycerz

Recent discoveries in graphene bilayers revealed that when one of the layers is rotated, superconductivity emerges. We provide an explanation for this phenomenon . We find that due to the layer rotations, the spinors are modified in such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 D. Schmeltzer

There are claims of synthesis of a room temperature superconductor. However, these claims have not been officially accepted by scientific communities. Currently, the highest transition temperature (Tc) recognized in scientific articles is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-30 Yasushi Kawashima

The unusual properties of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) have sparked enormous research interest. However, despite the dedication of intensive experimental efforts and the proposal of several possible…

The microscopic pairing mechanism for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene remains an open question. Recent experimental studies seem to rule out a purely electronic mechanism due to the insensitivity of the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-19 Liangtao Peng , Indra Yudhistira , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam