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Atomically thin materials offer multiple opportunities for layer-by-layer control of their electronic properties. While monolayer graphene (MLG) is a zero-gap system, Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) acquires a finite band gap when the…

Present study provides a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the superconducting phase in selected lithium-decorated bilayer graphene nanostructures. The numerical calculations, conducted within the Eliashberg formalism, give quantitative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-02 D. Szczȩśniak

The observation of flat energy bands in transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers such as twisted WSe${}_2$ makes those materials interesting prospects for reproducing the behavior observed in graphene-based systems. We use an effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Mathieu Bélanger , Jérôme Fournier , David Sénéchal

Graphene moire superlattices have emerged as a platform hosting and abundance of correlated insulating, topological, and superconducting phases. While the origins of strong correlations and non-trivial topology are shown to be directly…

Recent discovery of superconductivity in the twisted bilayer graphene has stimulated numerous theoretical proposals concerning its exact gap symmetry. Among them, $d+id$ or $p+ip$-wave were believed to be the most plausible solutions. Here…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-04 Zhe Liu , Yu Li , Yi-feng Yang

We study spin-transport in bilayer-graphene (BLG), spin-orbit coupled to a tungsten di sulfide (WS$_2$) substrate, and measure a record spin lifetime anisotropy ~40-70, i.e. ratio between the out-of-plane $\tau_{\perp}$ and in-plane spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Siddhartha Omar , Bettadahalli Nandishaiah Madhushankar , Bart Jan van Wees

Bernal bilayer graphene has recently been discovered to exhibit a wide range of unique ordered phases resulting from interaction-driven effects and encompassing spin and valley magnetism, correlated insulators, correlated metals, and…

Recent experiments have observed signatures of spin-valley-polarized unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$). Here, we explore the rich physics of superconducting tMoTe$_2$, enabled by its unique…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-17 Jin-Xin Hu , Akito Daido , Zi-Ting Sun , Ying-Ming Xie , K. T. Law

Motivated by the recent observations of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ (tWSe$_2$), we theoretically investigate the superconductivity driven by electronic mechanism. We first demonstrate that the multi-band screened Coulomb…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-17 Wei Qin , Wen-Xuan Qiu , Fengcheng Wu

Graphene moire superlattices are outstanding platforms to study correlated electron physics and superconductivity with exceptional tunability. However, robust superconductivity has been measured only in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

We study the proximity-induced superconducting state in a general bilayer -- conventional $s$-wave superconductor hybrid structure. For the bilayer we include a general parabolic dispersion, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and finite layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study the low-energy electronic structure of heterostructures formed by one sheet of graphene placed on a monolayer of ${\rm NbSe_2}$. We build a continuous low-energy effective model that takes into account the presence of a twist angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Yohanes S. Gani , Hadar Steinberg , Enrico Rossi

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…

Bilayer graphene (BLG) at the charge neutrality point (CNP) is strongly susceptible to electronic interactions, and expected to undergo a phase transition into a state with spontaneous broken symmetries. By systematically investigating a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Wenzhong Bao , Jairo Velasco , Fan Zhang , Lei Jing , Brian Standley , Dmitry Smirnov , Marc Bockrath , Allan MacDonald , Chun Ning Lau

The growth of high-quality Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) directly on dielectric substrates is crucial for electronic and optoelectronic applications, but there are still challenges such as poor quality, uncontrollable thickness and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Zuoquan Tan , Xianqin Xing , Yimei Fang , Le Huang , Shunqing Wu , Zhiyong Zhang , Le Wang , Xiangping Chen , Shanshan Chen

By tuning the angle between graphene layers to specific "magic angles" the lowest energy bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) can be made flat. The flat nature of the bands favors the formation of collective ground states and, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-09 Xiang Hu , Timo Hyart , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Enrico Rossi

We investigate phonon-mediated Cooper pairing in flat electronic band systems by solving the full-bandwidth multiband Eliashberg equations for superconductivity in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene using a realistic tight-binding model.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-25 Fabian Schrodi , Alex Aperis , Peter M. Oppeneer

The carrier density in tens of nanometers thick graphite samples (multi-layer-graphene, MLG) has been modified by applying a gate voltage ($V_g$) perpendicular to the graphene planes. Surface potential microscopy shows inhomogeneities in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Ballestar , P. Esquinazi , J. Barzola-Quiquia , S. Dusari , F. Bern , R. R. da Silva , Y. Kopelevich

For the first time, robust superconductivity has been independently observed in twisted WSe$_2$ bilayers by two separate groups [Y. Xia et al., arXiv:2405.14784; Y. Guo et al., arXiv:2406.03418.]. In light of this, we explore the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-14 Jihang Zhu , Yang-Zhi Chou , Ming Xie , Sankar Das Sarma

We study the superconducting phase transition, both in a graphene bilayer and in graphite. For that purpose we derive the mean-field effective potential for a stack of graphene layers presenting hopping between adjacent sheets. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , E. C. Marino , A. L. Mota