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Rhombohedral graphene multilayers host various broken-symmetry metallic phases as well as superconductors whose pairing mechanism and order parameter symmetry remain unsettled. Strikingly, experiments have revealed prominent new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhiyu Dong , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Jason Alicea

We perform an extensive exact diagonalization study of interaction driven insulators in spin- and valley-polarized moir\'{e} flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate. In addition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Andreas M. Läuchli

We investigate the possibility and implications of interlayer coherence in electrically isolated superconducting bilayers. We find that in a mean-field approximation bilayers can have superconducting and excitonic order simultaneously if…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-18 Igor V. Blinov , Allan H. MacDonald

We study the superconducting pairing symmetry in twisted bilayer graphene by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation for all electrons in moir\'{e} supercells. With increasing the pairing potential, the system evolves from the mixed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-05 Ying Su , Shi-Zeng Lin

It is well-known that the ground state of homogeneous superconducting systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the presence of the Zeeman field is the so-called helical state, which is characterized by the phase modulation of the order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-15 T. Karabassov , I. V. Bobkova , A. A. Golubov , A. S. Vasenko

Moir\'e superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene has been proven to be a versatile platform for exploring exotic quantum phases. Extensive investigations have been invoked focusing on the zero-magnetic-field phase diagram at the magic twist…

We study semiconductor nanowires coupled to a bilayer of a disordered superconductor and a magnetic insulator, motivated by recent experiments reporting possible Majorana-zero-mode signatures in related architectures. Specifically, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Aleksei Khindanov , Jason Alicea , Patrick Lee , William S. Cole , Andrey E. Antipov

We develop a weak coupling approach to superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, starting from the Fermi liquid regime. A key observation is that near half filling, the fermiology consists of well nested Fermi pockets derived from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-25 Yi-Zhuang You , Ashvin Vishwanath

`More is Different' (Anderson, 1972) in graphene. A bilayer and a twist spring surprises. Recently discovered superconductivity (T$_c\approx$ 1.7 K) at an ultra low doping density $\sim 10^{11}$cm${}^{-2}$ has alerted the community to look…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-03 Ganapathy Baskaran

A number of interesting physical phenomena have been discovered in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), such as superconductivity, correlated gapped and gapless phases, etc. The gapped phases are believed to be symmetry-breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-19 Geng-Dong Zhou , Yi-Jie Wang , Ninghua Tong , Zhi-Da Song

Motivated by the recently discovered time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity in epitaxial Bi/Ni bilayer system with transition temperature $T_c\approx 4.2$K and the observation of zero-bias anomaly in tunneling measurements, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-17 Rasoul Ghadimi , Mehdi Kargarian , S. Akbar Jafari

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

Bilayer nickelates exhibit high-temperature superconductivity under proper hydrostatic pressure or epitaxial strain, signifying the emergence of quantum phase transitions whose physical mechanisms remain unclear. Using a minimal bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-13 Xiaoyu Zhu , Wei Qin , Ping Cui , Zhenyu Zhang

We present a systematic classification and analysis of possible pairing instabilities in graphene-based moir\'e superlattices. Motivated by recent experiments on twisted double-bilayer graphene showing signs of triplet superconductivity, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-21 Mathias S. Scheurer , Rhine Samajdar

We study the emergence of superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene due purely to the long-range Coulomb repulsion. This repulsive-interaction-driven phase in rhombohedral trilayer graphene is significantly different from those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Vo Tien Phong , Francisco Guinea

For two decades, two-dimensional carbon species, including graphene, have been the core of research in pursuing next-generation logic applications beyond the silicon technology. Yet the opening of a gap in a controllable range of doping,…

We study conductance across a twisted bilayer graphene coupled to single-layer graphene leads in two setups: a flake of graphene on top of an infinite graphene ribbon and two overlapping semi-infinite graphene ribbons. We find conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Bruno Amorim , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

At partial fillings of its flat electronic bands, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) hosts a rich variety of competing correlated phases that show sample to sample variations. Divergent phase diagrams in MATBG are often attributed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Dillon Wong , Kevin P. Nuckolls , Myungchul Oh , Ryan L. Lee , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ali Yazdani

The theory of topological insulators and superconductors has mostly focused on non-interacting and gapped systems. This review article discusses topological phases that are either gapless or interacting. We discuss recent progress in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-04 Ari M. Turner , Ashvin Vishwanath

Graphene-based moir\'e superlattice featuring flat bands is a promising platform for studying strongly correlated states. By tuning two twist angles and displacement fields in twisted mono-mono-bilayer graphene (TMMBG), we observed a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jin Jiang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mitali Banerjee