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We show that rhombohedral graphite may support surface superconductivity with an unusual relation between the BCS coupling constant and the order parameter. This feature results from the properties of the states localized on the graphite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-15 N. B. Kopnin , T. T. Heikkila

Unconventional superconductors exhibit multiple broken symmetries and exceed the range of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. For instance, time-reversal symmetry can be broken in addition to the gauge symmetry, resulting in…

Superconductivity (SC) is a ubiquitous feature of graphite allotropes, having been observed in Bernal bilayers[1], rhombohedral trilayers[2], and a wide variety of angle-misaligned multilayers[3-6]. Despite significant differences in the…

A striking series of experiments have observed superconductivity in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG) when the energy bands are flattened by applying an electrical displacement field. Intriguingly, superconductivity manifests only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-03 Glenn Wagner , Yves H. Kwan , Nick Bultinck , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We employ a functional renormalization group approach to ascertain the pairing mechanism and symmetry of the superconducting phase observed in rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Superconductivity in this system occurs in a regime of carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-19 Wei Qin , Chunli Huang , Tobias Wolf , Nemin Wei , Igor Blinov , Allan H. MacDonald

The relative twist angle between layers of near-lattice-matched van der Waals materials is critical for the emergent correlated phenomena associated with moire flat bands. However, the concept of angle rotation control is not exclusive to…

We study theoretically the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with proximity-induced Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings on the top layer. Topological flat bands (with three distinct phases) are generically realized by the spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-11 Yang-Zhi Chou , Yuting Tan , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

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 show that in a two-dimensional electron gas with an annular Fermi surface, long-range Coulomb interactions can lead to unconventional superconductivity by the Kohn-Luttinger mechanism. Superconductivity is strongly enhanced when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-15 Areg Ghazaryan , Tobias Holder , Maksym Serbyn , Erez Berg

We show that the $e$-$e$ interaction induces a strong breakdown of valley symmetry for each spin channel in twisted trilayer graphene, leading to a ground state where the two spin projections have opposite sign of the valley symmetry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-02 J. Gonzalez , T. Stauber

We discuss a Kohn-Luttinger-like mechanism for superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene and rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Working within the continuum model description, we find that the screened long-range Coulomb interaction alone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea

Recently, exotic superconductivity emerging from a spin-and-valley-polarized metallic phase has been discovered in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene. To explain this observation, we study the role of electron-electron interactions in driving…

Recent experimental discovery of flavor symmetry breaking metallic phases in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene points to the strongly interacting nature of electrons near the top (bottom) of its valence (conduction) band. Superconductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-23 Ming Xie , Sankar Das Sarma

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has emerged as a promising platform for exploring correlated and topological quantum phases, enabled by its Berry-curvature-bearing flat bands. While prior work has focused on separated conduction and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-04 Jinghao Deng , Jiabin Xie , Hongyuan Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak , Xiaomeng Liu

Combining mean-field and renormalization group analyses, here we unveil the nature of recently observed superconductivity and parent metallic states in chemically doped rhombohedral trilayer graphene, subject to external electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Andras Szabo , Bitan Roy

Recent experiments have revealed that superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can emerge from a valley-polarized and, hence, chiral normal state. The interplay of pairing and the reduced normal-state symmetries sparked…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-21 Yinqi Chen , Mathias S. Scheurer , Constantin Schrade

Motivated by the observation of two distinct superconducting phases in the moir\'eless ABC-stacked rhombohedral trilayer graphene, we investigate the electron-acoustic-phonon coupling as a possible pairing mechanism. We predict the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-26 Yang-Zhi Chou , Fengcheng Wu , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

Crystalline rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) has emerged as an ideal platform for studying unconventional superconductivity. Here, we report the observation of superconductivity in moir\'eless rhombohedral heptalayer graphene (RHG) at…

We study the emergence of superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene due purely to the long-range Coulomb repulsion. This repulsive-interaction-driven phase in rhombohedral trilayer graphene is significantly different from those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Vo Tien Phong , Francisco Guinea

Surface superconductivity in rhombohedral graphite is a robust phenomenon which can exist even when higher order hoppings between the layers lift the topological protection of the surface flat band and introduce a quadratic dispersion of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-13 N. B. Kopnin , M. Ijäs , A. Harju , T. T. Heikkilä