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The discovery of magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (tTLG) adds a new twist to the family of graphene moir\'e. The additional graphene layer unlocks a series of intriguing properties in the superconducting phase, such as the violation of…
We propose minimal transport experiments in the coherent regime that can probe the chirality of twisted moir\'e structures. We show that only with a third contact and in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field (or other time-reversal…
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We theoretically propose a mechanism to realize the superconducting diode effect (SDE): The current can generate a magnetic field, affecting the magnetic moment of magnetic impurity. When the connection region of the Josephson junction is…
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