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Motivated by the indications of high-Tc superconductivity in natural graphite enriched in the rhombohedral phase, we study the band structure of several stacking configurations that combine two of the three graphite structures as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 R. Weht , A. A. Aligia , M. Nunez-Regueiro

In crystalline solids the interactions of charge and spin can result in a variety of emergent quantum ground states, especially in partially filled, topological flat bands such as Landau levels or in 'magic-angle' bilayer graphene. Much…

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene has emerged as an extraordinary platform for investigating exotic quantum states, such as superconductivity and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects, mainly due to the existence of topological surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 H. B. Xiao , C. Chen , X. Sui , S. H. Zhang , M. Z. Sun , H. Gao , Q. Jiang , Q. Li , L. X. Yang , M. Ye , F. Y. Zhu , M. X. Wang , J. P. Liu , Z. B. Zhang , Z. J. Wang , Y. L. Chen , K. H. Liu , Z. K. Liu

Topologically protected flat surface bands make thin films of rhombohedral graphite an appealing platform for searching for strongly correlated states of 2D electrons. In this work, we study rhombohedral graphite with a twin boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Sergey Slizovskiy , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Rhombohedral (ABC-stacked) multilayer graphene hosts interaction-driven phases enabled by surface flat bands at large displacement fields. In thick flakes, however, strong screening suppresses internal electric fields, raising the question…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Kryštof Kolář , Andrea F. Young , Cyprian Lewandowski

We show that the topologically protected flat band emerging on a surface of a nodal fermionic system promotes the surface superconductivity due to an infinitely large density of states associated with the flat band. The critical temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 N. B. Kopnin , T. T. Heikkilä , G. E. Volovik

Flat bands in graphitic materials emerged as a platform for realizing tunable correlated physics. As a nodal-line semimetal, rhombohedral graphite features flat drumhead surface states in the vicinity of the Dirac points, which carry a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Xiaoqian Liu , Yifei Guan , Oleg V. Yazyev

The topological electronic structure of crystalline materials often gives rise to intriguing surface states, such as Dirac surface states in topological insulators, Fermi arc surface states in Dirac semimetals, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Wenqiang Zhou , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

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

Rhombohedral graphene (RG) has emerged as a promising platform for exploring exotic quantum phenomena, such as quantum magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects. Despite its potential,…

We construct quasi one-dimensional topological and non-topological three-band lattices with tunable band gap and winding number of the flat band. Using mean field (MF) and exact density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-11 Si Min Chan , B. Grémaud , G. G. Batrouni

The recent discovery of superconductivity and magnetism in trilayer rhombohedral graphene (RG) establishes an ideal, untwisted platform to study strong correlation electronic phenomena. However, the correlated effects in multilayer RG have…

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

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…

Manipulating the topological properties of quantum states can provide a way to protect them against disorder. However, typically, changing the topology of electronic states in a crystalline material is challenging because their nature is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Luke Soneji , Simon Crampin , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski

Rhombohedral graphite (RG) shows strong correlations in its topological flat band and is pivotal for exploring emergent, correlated electronic phenomena. One key advantage is the enhancement of electronic interactions with the increase in…

A new frontier in condensed matter physics is to stack atomically thin layered-materials with different properties and create intriguing phenomena which do not exist in any of the constituent layers. Transition metal dichalcogenide…

Flat bands play an important role in the study of strongly correlated phenomena, such as ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and fractional quantum Hall effect. Here we report direct experimental evidence for the presence of flat bands,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Lei Feng , Xianqing Lin , Lan Meng , Jia-Cai Nie , Jun Ni , Lin He

Rhombohedral graphene (rG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been shown to host flat bands that stabilize various strongly correlated quantum phases, including Mott insulators, integer, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall…

Twisted graphene moire superlattice has been demonstrated as an exotic platform for investigating correlated states and nontrivial topology. Among the moire family, twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG) is a tunable flat band system…

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