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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…

Since the very recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity in twisted WSe$_2$ homobilayers at filling $\nu=-1$, considerable interest has arisen in revealing its mechanism. In this paper, we developed a three-band tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-03 Chuyi Tuo , Ming-Rui Li , Zhengzhi Wu , Wen Sun , Hong Yao

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

We show that introducing spin-singlet or spin-triplet superconductivity into twisted bilayer graphene induces higher-order topological superconductivity. $C_{2z}T$-protected corner states of Majorana Kramers pairs appear at the boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Aaron Chew , Yijie Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

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…

Two-dimensional moir\'e Chern bands provide an exceptional platform for exploring a variety of many-body quantum phases at zero magnetic field within a lattice system. One particular intriguing possibility is that flat Chern bands can, in…

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 show that a two-dimensional topological superconductor (TSC) can be realized in a hybrid system with a conventional $s$-wave superconductor proximity-coupled to a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state from the Rashba and exchange effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 L. Wang , M. W. Wu

The interplay of electronic interactions and nontrivial topology can give rise to a wealth of exotic quantum states. A notable example is the formation of Wigner crystals driven by strong electron-electron interactions. When these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Hanxiao Xiang , Jing Ding , Jiannan Hua , Naitian Liu , Wenqiang Zhou , Qianmei Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Na Xin , Wei Zhu , Shuigang Xu

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene at high displacement fields hosts superconductivity emerging from a spin valley polarized quarter metal, with transport signatures suggestive of time reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking and chiral…

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

We present a review of theoretical investigations into the Kohn-Luttinger nonphonon superconductivity mechanism in various 3D and 2D repulsive electron systems described by the Fermi-gas, Hubbard, and Shubin-Vonsovsky models. Phase diagrams…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-26 M. Yu. Kagan , V. V. Val'kov , V. A. Mitskan , M. M. Korovushkin

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 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

Motivated by exploring the effect of interactions on Chern insulators, and by recent experiments realizing topological bands for ultracold atoms in synthetic gauge fields, we study the honeycomb lattice Haldane-Hubbard model of spin-$1/2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-08 V. S. Arun , R. Sohal , C. Hickey , A. Paramekanti

External magnetic fields conventionally suppress superconductivity, both by orbital and paramagnetic effects. A recent experiment has shown that in a Bernal stacked bilayer graphene system, the opposite occurs -- a finite critical magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-01 Gal Shavit , Yuval Oreg

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

We propose an exotic scenario that topological superconductivity can emerge by doping strongly interacting fermionic systems whose spin degrees of freedom form bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) state. Specifically, we study a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-27 Shang-Qiang Ning , Zheng-Xin Liu , Hong-Chen Jiang

Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniele Di Miceli , Chandan Setty , Alessio Zaccone

Recent experiments showing an integer quantum anomalous Hall effect in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene have been interpreted in terms of a valley-polarized interaction-induced Chern band. The resulting many-body state can be viewed as an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 Zhihuan Dong , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil