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Graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide flat-band systems show similar phase diagrams, replete with magnetic and superconducting phases. An abiding question has been whether magnetic ordering competes with superconductivity or…

We show how the pairing symmetry of superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene can be experimentally identified by theoretically studying effects of externally applied in-plane magnetic field and strain. In the low field regime,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-03 Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

We study theoretically the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with proximity-induced Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings on the top layer. Topological flat bands (with three distinct phases) are generically realized by the spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-11 Yang-Zhi Chou , Yuting Tan , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

The microscopic mechanism of superconductivity in the magic-angle twisted graphene family, including magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG), is poorly understood. Properties of MATTG, like Pauli limit violation, suggest…

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

We discuss transport properties of fully spin-polarized triplet superconductors, where only electrons of one spin component (along a certain axis) are paired. Due to the structure of the order parameter space, wherein phase and spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

In this article, we review the recent discoveries of exotic phenomena in graphene, especially superconductivity. It has been theoretically suggested for more than one decade that superconductivity may emerge in doped graphene-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-28 Yonghuan Chu , Fangduo Zhu , Linzhi Wen , Wanying Chen , Qiaoni Chen , Tianxing Ma

We show that the recently observed superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be explained as a consequence of the Kohn-Luttinger (KL) instability which leads to an effective attraction between electrons with originally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 J. González , T. Stauber

Starting from a continuum-model description, we develop a microscopic weak-coupling theory for superconductivity in twisted double-bilayer graphene. We study both electron-phonon and entirely electronic pairing mechanisms. In each case, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-04 Rhine Samajdar , Mathias S. Scheurer

We carry out a theoretical study of unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer cuprates (TBC) as a function of electron density and layer twist angle. The bilayer $t$-$J$-$U$ model is employed and analyzed within the framework of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-11 Maciej Fidrysiak , Bartłomiej Rzeszotarski , Józef Spałek

We propose a model for a superconductor where both spin-singlet and chiral triplet pairing amplitudes can coexist. By solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations with a general pair potential that accounts for both spin states we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Pablo Burset , Felix Keidel , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa , Björn Trauzettel

Motivated by the possible non-spin-singlet superconductivity in the magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene experiment, we investigate the triplet-pairing superconductivity arising from a correlation-induced spin-fermion model on a honeycomb…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-18 Yang-Zhi Chou , Fengcheng Wu , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

We show that the superconducivity in twisted graphene multilayers originates from a common feature, which is the strong valley symmetry breaking characteristic of these moir\'e systems at the magic angle. This leads to a breakdown of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 J. Gonzalez , T. Stauber

In the presence of a large perpendicular electric field, Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) features several broken-symmetry metallic phases as well as magnetic-field-induced superconductivity. The superconducting state is quite fragile,…

We study the superconducting state of multi-orbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the inter-orbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-06 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

We develop a theory for interlayer pairing of chiral electrons in graphene materials which results in an unconventional superconducting (S) state with s-wave spin-triplet order parameter. In a pure bilayer graphene, this superconductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-10 Mir Vahid Hosseini , Malek Zareyan

We study the electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), which was recently experimentally observed to exhibit superconductivity around the magic twist angle $\theta\approx 1.05^\circ$. We show that phonon-mediated electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Biao Lian , Zhijun Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig

Bilayer graphene encapsulated in tungsten diselenide can host a weak topological phase with pairs of helical edge states. The electrical tunability of this phase makes it an ideal platform to investigate unique topological effects at zero…

We propose a novel heterostructure to achieve chiral topological superconductivity in 2D. A substrate with a large Rashba spin-orbit coupling energy is brought in proximity to a twisted bilayer of thin films exfoliated from a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-14 Gilad Margalit , Binghai Yan , Marcel Franz , Yuval Oreg

The discovery of different phases as a result of correlations, especially in low-dimensional materials, has been always an exciting and fundamental subject of research. Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have revealed reentrant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-30 Yury Sherkunov , Joseph J. Betouras