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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 present a theory of superconducting pairing originating from soft critical fluctuations near isospin-polarized states in rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Using a symmetry-based approach, we determine possible isospin order types and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-10 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

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

Spin excitations that soften near the onset of magnetic order have long been known to act as `paramagnon' pairing glue that can drive spin-triplet superconductivity. Recent findings of superconductivity in graphene bilayers and trilayers,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov , Andrey V. Chubukov

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has recently emerged as a rich platform for studying correlation driven magnetic, topological and superconducting states. While most experimental efforts have focused on devices with N$\leq 9$ layers, the…

Rhombohedral graphene multilayers provide a clean and highly reproducible platform to explore the emergence of superconductivity and magnetism in a strongly interacting electron system. Here, we use electronic compressibility and local…

Intrinsic rhombohedral graphene hosts an unusual low-energy electronic wavefunction, predominantly localized at its outer crystal faces with negligible presence in the bulk. Increasing the number of graphene layers amplifies the density of…

Inspired by the recent experimental discovery of superconductivity emerging from a time-reversal symmetry-breaking normal state in tetralayer rhombohedral graphene, we here investigate superconducting instabilities in this system. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-13 Maine Christos , Pietro M. Bonetti , Mathias S. Scheurer

Magnetic fields typically suppress superconductivity once the Zeeman energy exceeds the pairing gap, unless mechanisms such as unconventional pairing, strong spin-orbit coupling, or intrinsic magnetism intervene. Several graphene platforms…

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 conventional superconductors, superconductivity is generally suppressed by external magnetic fields due to spin-singlet pairing. Here, we report signatures of in-plane-magnetic-field-induced superconductivity in hexalayer rhombohedral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jinghao Deng , Jiabin Xie , Hongyuan Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak , Xiaomeng Liu

Superconductivity was recently discovered in rhombohedral trilayer graphene (RTG) in the absence of a moir\'e potential. Superconductivity is observed proximate to a metallic state with reduced isospin symmetry, but it remains unknown…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-07 Shubhayu Chatterjee , Taige Wang , Erez Berg , Michael P. Zaletel

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has played an important role in many topological and correlated electron materials. In graphene-based systems, SOC induced by transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) at proximity was shown to drive topological states…

We report the observation of superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene electrostatically doped with holes. Superconductivity occurs in two distinct regions within the space of gate-tuned charge carrier density and applied electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Haoxin Zhou , Tian Xie , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Andrea F. Young

We explore Bernal bilayer graphene in the presence of long-range Coulomb interactions, short-range Hund's coupling, and proximity-induced Ising spin-orbit coupling using self-consistent Hartree-Fock simulations. We show that the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Jin Ming Koh , Alex Thomson , Jason Alicea , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise

Understanding the origin of superconductivity in correlated two-dimensional materials is a key step in leveraging material engineering techniques for next-generation nanoscale devices. The recent demonstration of superconductivity in Bernal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-26 Emil Viñas Boström , Ammon Fischer , Jonas B. Profe , Jin Zhang , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio

The quest for unconventional superconductivity governed by Coulomb repulsion between electrons rather than phonon attraction received new momentum with the advent of moir\'e graphene. Initially, delineating the phonon and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-24 Zhiyu Dong , Andrey V. Chubukov , Leonid Levitov

We analyze the origin of superconductivity in a ferromagnetically ordered state of multi-layer graphene systems placed in proximity to WSe$_2$. We model these materials by a two-valley system of interacting fermions with small pockets and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-02 Zachary M Raines , Andrey V Chubukov

A recent experiment showed that proximity induced Ising spin-orbit coupling enhances the spin-triplet superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene. Here, we show that, due to the nearly perfect spin rotation symmetry of graphene, the…

Motivated by the recent experimental discovery of superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene, we investigate the pairing mechanism arising from the density-density interactions within the random-phase approximation. This approach…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Qiong Qin , Congjun Wu
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