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We present a simple model that we believe captures the key aspects of the competition between superconducting and insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene. Within this model, the superconducting phase is primary, and arises at generic…

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Interplay of strong correlation and flat topological band has been a central problem in moir\'e systems such as the magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). Recent studies show that Mott-like states may still be possible in TBG despite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Jing-Yu Zhao , Boran Zhou , Ya-Hui Zhang

Stacking two layers of graphene with a relative twist angle gives rise to moir\'e patterns, which can strongly modify electronic behavior and may lead to unconventional superconductivity. A synthetic version of twisted bilayers can be…

Using the {\it ab initio} anisotropic Eliashberg theory including Coulomb interactions, we investigate the electron-phonon interaction and the pairing mechanism in the recently-reported superconducting Ca-intercalated bilayer graphene. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-25 E. R. Margine , Henry Lambert , Feliciano Giustino

We introduce and analyze a model that sheds light on the interplay between correlated insulating states, superconductivity, and flavor-symmetry breaking in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using a variational mean-field theory, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-14 Gal Shavit , Erez Berg , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

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

A key to understanding unconventional superconductivity lies in unraveling the pairing mechanism of mobile charge carriers in doped antiferromagnets, yielding an effective attraction between charges even in the presence of strong repulsive…

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We examine spin density wave and triplet superconductivity as possible ground states of the Bernal bilayer graphene. The spin density wave is stable for the unbiased and undoped bilayer. Both the doping and the applied bias voltage destroy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-08 A. O. Sboychakov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. L. Rakhmanov

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) can host an intriguing variety of gate-tunable correlated states, including superconducting and correlated insulator states. Junction-based superconducting devices, such as Josephson junctions…

The trivalent alkali fullerides A$_3$C$_{60}$, where C$_{60}$ are a well established family of molecular superconductors. The electron pairing has s-wave symmetry and is due to standard electron-phonon coupling, in particular by Jahn-Teller…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-24 M. Capone , M. Fabrizio , C. Castellani , E. Tosatti

In the past two years, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a uniquely versatile experimental platform that combines metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating phases in a single crystal. In particular the ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Folkert K. de Vries , Elias Portoles , Giulia Zheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Peter Rickhaus

We analyze an analog of the $t$-$J$-$U$ model as applied to the description of a single moir\'e flat band of twisted WSe$_2$ bilayer. To take into account the correlation effects induced by a significant strength of the Coulomb repulsion,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-15 M. Zegrodnik , A. Biborski

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has recently emerged as a highly tunable two-dimensional (2D) material platform exhibiting a wide range of phases, such as metal, insulator, and superconductor states. Local electrostatic control…

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…

Starting from the strong-coupling limit of an extended Hubbard model, we develop a spin-fermion theory to study the insulating phase and pairing symmetry of the superconducting phase in twisted bilayer graphene. Assuming that the insulating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Xingyu Gu , Chuan Chen , Jia Ning Leaw , Evan Laksono , Vitor M. Pereira , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

On flat bands of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, exotic correlation physics unfolds. Phonons, through mediating an effective electron-electron interaction, can play a crucial role in selecting various electronic phases. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-03 Yi-Jie Wang , Geng-Dong Zhou , Biao Lian , Zhi-Da Song

Interactions among electrons and the topology of their energy bands can create novel quantum phases of matter. Most topological electronic phases appear in systems with weak electron-electron interactions. The instances where topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Kevin P. Nuckolls , Myungchul Oh , Dillon Wong , Biao Lian , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

When bilayer graphene is rotationally faulted to an angle $\theta\approx 1.1^\circ$, theory predicts the formation of a flat electronic band and correlated insulating, superconducting, and ferromagnetic states have all been observed at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Yu Saito , Jingyuan Ge , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Andrea F. Young

Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

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