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Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Maryam Khosravian , Elena Bascones , Jose L. Lado

Conduction between graphene layers is suppressed by momentum conservation whenever the layer stacking has a rotation. Here we show that phonon scattering plays a crucial role in facilitating interlayer conduction. The resulting dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Perebeinos , J. Tersoff , Ph. Avouris

We introduce and analyze a model that sheds light on the interplay between correlated insulating states, superconductivity, and flavor-symmetry breaking in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a variational mean-field theory, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-14 Gal Shavit , Erez Berg , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

The ability to control the strength of interaction is essential for studying quantum phenomena emerging from a system of correlated fermions. For example, the isotope effect illustrates the effect of electron-phonon coupling on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Xiaoxue Liu , Zhi Wang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Oskar Vafek , J. I. A. Li

We argue that doped twisted bilayer graphene with magical twist angle can become superconducting. In our theoretical scenario, the superconductivity coexists with the spin-density-wave-like ordering. Numerical mean-field analysis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-12 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov

This work theoretically analyzes electronic ordering in AA-stacked bilayer graphene and the role of the Coulomb interaction in these many-body phenomena. Using the random phase approximation to account for screening, we find intra-layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-15 A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov

Since the discovery of superconductivity and correlated insulator at fractional electron fillings in the twisted bilayer graphene, most theoretical efforts have been focused on describing this system in terms of an effective extended…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Chuan Wu , Chao-Ming Jian , Cenke Xu

We investigate the competition between acoustic-phonon-mediated superconductivity and the long-range Coulomb interaction in moir\'eless graphene multilayers, specifically, Bernal bilayer graphene, rhombohedral trilayer graphene, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-11 Yang-Zhi Chou , Fengcheng Wu , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

We develop an analytic theory to describe the interaction between electrons and K-phonons and study its influence on superconductivity in the bare bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We find that, due to symmetry and the two-center…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-10 Chao-Xing Liu , Yulin Chen , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

We report planar tunneling spectroscopy measurements on metal-WSe$_2$-twisted bilayer graphene heterostructures across a broad range of gate and bias voltages. The observed experimental features are attributed to phonon-assisted tunneling…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has attracted significant interest recently due to the discoveries of diverse correlated and topological states in this system. Despite the extensive research on the electron-electron interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Xiaoqian Liu , Ran Peng , Zhaoru Sun , Jianpeng Liu

Using a Green's function approach, we study phonon-mediated superconducting pairing symmetries that may arise in bilayer graphene where the monolayers are displaced in-plane with respect to each other. We consider a generic coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-26 Mohammad Alidoust , Morten Willatzen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We employ a large-scale, unbiased constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo method to systematically simulate the effective two-orbital Hubbard model for twisted bilayer graphene in order to gain deeper insight into the relationship between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 Shi-Chao Fang , Xin-Yi Liao

Graphene moire superlattices are outstanding platforms to study correlated electron physics and superconductivity with exceptional tunability. However, robust superconductivity has been measured only in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

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

Identifying the microscopic mechanism for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is an outstanding open problem. While MATBG exhibits a rich phase-diagram, driven partly by the strong interactions relative to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-09 Cyprian Lewandowski , Debanjan Chowdhury , Jonathan Ruhman

We propose a new route to induce flat bands with a strong superconducting instability in graphene bilayers with heteroshear, where the 1D character of the moir\'e leads to stronger correlations than in twisted bilayer graphene. We adopt an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jose Gonzalez , Tobias Stauber

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits a panoply of many-body phenomena that are intimately tied to the appearance of narrow and well-isolated electronic bands. The microscopic ingredients that are responsible for the complex…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-04 Cyprian Lewandowski , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Debanjan Chowdhury

Moir\'e phonons describe collective vibrations of a moir\'e superlattice produced by long-wavelength relative displacements of the constituent layers. Despite coming from the backfolding of the acoustic phonons of the individual layers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Alejandro Ramos-Alonso , Hector Ochoa