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Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) recently emerged as a highly tunable platform for studying correlated phases of matter, such as correlated insulators and superconductivity. Superconductivity occurs in a range of doping levels…

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

Moir\'e lattices provide a highly tunable platform for exploring the interplay between electronic correlations and band topology. Introducing a second moir\'e pattern extends this paradigm: interference between the two moir\'e patterns…

We study the intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene, which has been discovered experimentally in Han $et$ $al$ arXiv:2408.15233. We construct a minimal model for the intravalley spin-polarized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-20 Yang-Zhi Chou , Jihang Zhu , Sankar Das Sarma

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the topological surface states (TSS) of Bi$_2$Se$_3$, a 3D topological insulator, epitaxially grown on twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). The moir\'e potential induced by tBG folds the TSS Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Yoonkang Kim

We show that topological superconductivity may emerge upon doping of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers above an integer-filling magnetic state of the topmost valence moir\'e band. The effective attraction between charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Daniele Guerci , Jennifer Cano , J. H. Pixley , Andrew Millis

We address the possible emergence of spin triplet superconductivity in CrO$_{2}$ bilayers, which are half-metals with fully spin-polarized conducting bands. Starting from a lattice model, we show that chiral $p+ip$ states compete with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-13 Xu Dou , Kangjun Seo , Bruno Uchoa

The quantum transport properties of graphene and monolayer $MoS_2$ superconductor heterostructures has been of considerable importance in the recent few years. Layered nature of molybdenum disulfide permits the superconducting correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Maryam Khezerlou , Hadi Goudarzi

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) provides a unique framework to elucidate the interplay between strong correlations and topological phenomena in two-dimensional systems. The existence of multiple electronic degrees of freedom -- charge, spin,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Yuan Da Liao , Jian Kang , Clara N. Breiø , Xiao Yan Xu , Han-Qing Wu , Brian M. Andersen , Rafael M. Fernandes , Zi Yang Meng

The interfacial coupling between electrons and magnons in adjacent layers can mediate an attractive electron-electron interaction and induce superconductivity. We consider magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene sandwiched between two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-20 Bjørnulf Brekke , Asle Sudbø , Arne Brataas

It was recently shown that a chiral topological phase emerges from the coupling of two twisted monolayers of superconducting Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ for certain twist angles. In this work, we reveal the behavior of such twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-01 Leonardo R. Cadorim , Edson Sardella , Milorad V. Milošević

In the presence of both space and time reversal symmetries, an s-wave A1g superconducting state is usually topologically trivial. Here we demonstrate that an exception can take place in a type of nonsymmorphic lattice structures. We specify…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-17 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-Chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

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

Recent experiments indicate that crystalline graphene multilayers exhibit much of the richness of their twisted counterparts, including cascades of symmetry-broken states and unconventional superconductivity. Interfacing Bernal bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Jin Ming Koh , Jason Alicea , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) realizes a highly tunable, strongly interacting system featuring superconductivity and various correlated insulating states. We establish gate-defined wires in TBG with proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-23 Alex Thomson , Ina Sorensen , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Jason Alicea

We propose an exotic scenario that topological superconductivity can emerge by doping strongly interacting fermionic systems whose spin degrees of freedom form bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) state. Specifically, we study a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Shang-Qiang Ning , Zheng-Xin Liu , Hong-Chen Jiang

Spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) causes spin-valley locking giving rise to unconventional optical, transport, and superconducting properties. In this paper, we propose exotic superconductivity in bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-13 Yasuharu Nakamura , Youichi Yanase

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-02 Louk Rademaker , Paula Mellado

It is difficult to unambiguously confirm the existence of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) due to the absence of smoking-gun signatures in charge transport measurements. Recent studies suggest that the spin degree of freedom of MZMs may provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Li Chen , Ying-Hai Wu , Xin Liu

We study the presence of higher-order van Hove singularities in mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene. This geometry has recently emerged experimentally as a fascinating playground for studying correlated and exotic superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Daniele Guerci , Pascal Simon , Christophe Mora