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Motivated by the possible non-spin-singlet superconductivity in the magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene experiment, we investigate the triplet-pairing superconductivity arising from a correlation-induced spin-fermion model on a honeycomb…

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Recent studies of rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) have revealed a variety of superconducting states that can be induced or enhanced by magnetic fields, reinforcing RMG as a powerful platform for investigating novel superconductivity.…

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Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting states that break time reversal symmetry spontaneously and typically feature Cooper pairing at non-zero angular momentum. Such states may host Majorana fermions and provide an…

Spin-orbit coupling has proven indispensable in realizing topological materials and more recently Ising pairing in two-dimensional superconductors. This pairing mechanism relies on inversion symmetry breaking and sustains anomalously large…

Semimetals exhibit intriguing characteristics attributed to the coexistence of both electrons and holes. In rhombohedral multilayer graphene, a strong trigonal warping effect gives rise to a semi-metallic state near the Fermi surface,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jing Ding , Hanxiao Xiang , Naitian Liu , Wenqiang Zhou , Xinjie Fang , Zhangyuan Chen , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Shuigang Xu

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…

We propose a way to generate a one-dimensional topological superconductor from a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide coupled to a Bernal-stacked bilayer of graphene under a displacement field. With proper gating, this structure…

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Symmetry offers a useful approach to unfold the intertwined degrees of freedom. Thus it paves the way to resolve coexisting quantum orders into distinct symmetry sectors. Motivated by the recent observation of superconductivity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Kunal Dutta , Rajesh O. Sharma , Shreya Das , Indra Dasgupta , Tanmoy Das , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

Motivated by experiments on rhombohedral tetralayer graphene showing signs of superconductivity emerging from a valley-polarized normal state, we here analyze theoretically how scanning tunneling spectroscopy can be used to probe the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-30 Denis Sedov , Mathias S. Scheurer

The tunable band structure and nontrivial topology of multilayer rhombohedral graphene lead to a variety of correlated electronic states with isospin orders-meaning ordered states in the combined spin and valley degrees of freedom-dictated…

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

Superconductivity is observed in rhombohedral trilayer graphene in a narrow regime between the flavor-symmetric state and the symmetry breaking phase, which cannot be described by the conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Chun Wang Chau , Shuai A. Chen , K. T. Law

We develop a weak coupling approach to superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, starting from the Fermi liquid regime. A key observation is that near half filling, the fermiology consists of well nested Fermi pockets derived from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-25 Yi-Zhuang You , Ashvin Vishwanath

Multi-orbital Hubbard models are shown to exhibit a spatially isotropic spin-triplet superconducting phase, where equal-spin electrons in different local orbitals are paired. This superconducting state is stabilized in the spin-freezing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-10 Shintaro Hoshino , Philipp Werner

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity typically compete with each other since the internal magnetic field generated in a magnet suppresses the formation of spin-singlet Cooper pairs in conventional superconductors. Only a handful of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Eslam Khalaf , Jong Yeon Lee , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Philip Kim

It has been shown that the Kohn--Luttinger superconductivity mechanism interplaying with other types of ordering can be implemented in systems with a hexagonal lattice. A number of unusual properties of such systems in the normal phase have…

We investigate the recently discovered multiple superconducting states in rhombohedral graphene quarter metal. We demonstrate that one of these states features a single-spin, single-valley, single-band, single-Fermi-pocket parent state and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Chiho Yoon , Tianyi Xu , Yafis Barlas , Fan Zhang

Chiral superconductivity is a time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconducting phase that has attracted broad interest as a potential platform for topological quantum computation. A fundamental consequence of this symmetry breaking is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-12 Jihang Zhu , Chunli Huang

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

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