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Charge-$4e$ superconductivity as a novel phase of matter remains elusive so far. Here we show that charge-$4e$ phase can arise as a vestigial order above the nematic superconducting transition temperature in time-reversal-invariant nematic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-24 Shao-Kai Jian , Yingyi Huang , Hong Yao

Charge-$4e$ superconductivity is an exotic state of matter that may emerge as a vestigial order from a charge-$2e$ superconductor with multicomponent superconducting order parameters. Showing its emergence in a microscopic model from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-31 Xuan Zou , Zhou-Quan Wan , Hong Yao

When two graphene sheets are twisted relative to each other by a small angle, enhanced correlations lead to superconductivity whose origin remains under debate. Here, we derive some general constraints on superconductivity in twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Eslam Khalaf , Patrick Ledwith , Ashvin Vishwanath

Twisted bilayer graphene displays insulating and superconducting phases caused by exceptional flattening of its lowest energy bands. Superconductivity with highest $T_c$ appears at hole and electron dopings, near half-filling for valence or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-29 Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Laura Classen , Andrey V. Chubukov

Electronically ordered states that break multiple symmetries can melt in multiple stages, similarly to liquid crystals. In the partially-melted phases, known as vestigial phases, a bilinear made out of combinations of the multiple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-15 Matthias Hecker , Roland Willa , Jörg Schmalian , Rafael M. Fernandes

Nematic superconductors possess unconventional superconducting order parameters that spontaneously break rotational symmetry of the underlying crystal. In this work we propose a mechanism for nematic superconductivity stabilized by strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-10 Vladyslav Kozii , Hiroki Isobe , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu

In the fluctuation regime that precedes the onset of pairing in multi-component superconductors, such as nematic and chiral superconductors, the normal state is generally unstable towards the formation of charge-$4e$ order $-$ an exotic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-15 Matthias Hecker , Rafael M. Fernandes

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) develops large moir\'e patterns at small twist angles with flat energy bands hosting domes of superconductivity. The large system size and intricate band structure have however hampered investigations into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Tomas Löthman , Johann Schmidt , Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Charge-$4e$ superconductors are phases where quartets of electrons condense in the absence of Cooper pairing condensation. They exhibit distinctive signatures including fractional flux quantization and anomalous Josephson effects, and are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Yan-Qi Wang , Hui Yang , Congjun Wu

A number of spectacular experimental anomalies\cite{li-2007,fujita-2005} have recently been discovered in certain cuprates, notably {\LBCO} and {\LNSCO}, which exhibit unidirectional spin and charge order (known as ``stripe order''). We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-04 E. Berg , E. Fradkin , S. A. Kivelson

Strongly interacting electrons in solid-state systems often display tendency towards multiple broken symmetries in the ground state. The complex interplay between different order parameters can give rise to a rich phase diagram. Here, we…

It has been shown that the Kohn--Luttinger superconductivity mechanism interplaying with other types of ordering can be implemented in systems with a hexagonal lattice. A number of unusual properties of such systems in the normal phase have…

We propose a lattice scale two-band generalized Hubbard model as a caricature of the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene. Various possible broken symmetry phases can arise, including a nematic phase (which is a form of orbital…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-29 John F. Dodaro , Steven A. Kivelson , Yoni Schattner , Xiao-Qi Sun , Chao Wang

Several research groups have reported on the observation of superconductivity in bilayer graphene structures where single atomic layers of graphene are stacked and then twisted at angles $\theta$ forming Moir\'e superlattices. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Evgueni F. Talantsev , Ratu C. Mataira , Wayne P. Crump

We propose an SU(4) spin-valley-fermion model to investigate the superconducting instabilities of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). In this approach, bosonic fluctuations associated with an emergent SU(4) symmetry, corresponding to combined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Yuxuan Wang , Jian Kang , Rafael M. Fernandes

We present a theory for charge-$4e$ superconductivity as a leading low-temperature instability with a nontrivial $d$-wave symmetry. We show that in several microscopic models for the pair-density-wave (PDW) state, when the PDW wave vectors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-13 Yi-Ming Wu , Yuxuan Wang

A phase of matter in which fermion quartets form a superconducting condensate, rather than the paradigmatic Cooper pairs, is a recurrent subject of experimental and theoretical studies. However, a comprehensive microscopic understanding of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-12 Martina O. Soldini , Mark H. Fischer , Titus Neupert

We study theoretically many-body properties of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene for different doping levels. Our investigation is focused on the emergence, stability, and manifestations of nematicity of the ordered low-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

A charge-$4e$ superconductor forms due to the condensation of quartets of electrons. While in previous works the mechanism for the formation of charge-$4e$ superconductivity has been analyzed in terms of the binding of Cooper pairs in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov , Yuxuan Wang

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…

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