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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

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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 host various broken-symmetry metallic phases as well as superconductors whose pairing mechanism and order parameter symmetry remain unsettled. Strikingly, experiments have revealed prominent new…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhiyu Dong , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Jason Alicea

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

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…

Motivated by recent experiments on ABC-stacked rhombohedral trilayer graphene (RTG) which observed spin-valley symmetry-breaking and superconductivity, we study instabilities of the RTG metallic state to symmetry breaking orders. We find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-13 Yi-Zhuang You , Ashvin Vishwanath

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…

A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral $p$-wave pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Max Geier , Margarita Davydova , Liang Fu

We report the observation of spin-polarized superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene when doped to a saddle-point van Hove singularity generated by large applied perpendicular electric field. We observe a cascade of electrostatic…

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

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

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

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 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
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