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The interplay between ferroelectricity, magnetism, and superconductivity provides a rich platform for discovering novel quantum phenomena. Here, we develop an effective theory and propose a heterostructure composed of an antiferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-02 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Realizing Chern insulators with Chern numbers greater than one remains a major goal in quantum materials research. Such platforms promise multichannel dissipationless chiral transport and access to correlated phases beyond the conventional…

Tailor-made graphene nanostructures can exhibit symmetry-protected topological boundary states that host localized spin-$1/2$ moments. However, one frequently observes charge transfer on coinage metal substrates, which results in spinless…

Graphene-based moire superlattices provide a versatile platform for exploring novel correlated and topological electronic states, driven by enhanced Coulomb interactions within flat bands. The intrinsic tunability of graphene s multiple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-16 Jian Zheng , Size Wu , Kai Liu , Bosai Lyu , Shuhan Liu , Yating Sha , Zhengxian Li , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinfeng Jia , Zhiwen Shi , Guorui Chen

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

Opening a band gap and realizing static valley control have been long sought after in graphenebased two-dimensional (2D) materials. Motivated by the recent success in synthesizing 2D materials passivated by Si-N layers, here, we propose two…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-01 Luo Yan , Jiaojiao Zhu , Bao-Tian Wang , Peng-Fei Liu , Guangzhao Wang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Liujiang Zhou

Chern insulators host topologically protected chiral edge currents with quantized conductance characterized by their Chern number. Switching the chirality of a Chern insulator, namely, the direction of the edge current, is highly…

Spin-polarized superconductors offer a rare platform for studying electronic correlations, but few candidate systems have been experimentally confirmed to date. Here, we report the observation of a spin-polarized superconducting state,…

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

Recently discovered helical polar fluid adopts a spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) driven by polarization escape and conformational chirality. Ferroelectric nematic and smectic phases are intrinsically chiral in the ground state…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Hiroya Nishikawa , Dennis Kwaria , Atsuko Nihonyanagi , Fumito Araoka

Recent experiments indicate that crystalline graphene multilayers exhibit much of the richness of their twisted counterparts, including cascades of symmetry-broken states and unconventional superconductivity. Interfacing Bernal bilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Jin Ming Koh , Jason Alicea , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise

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…

Despite much effort for over the two decades, the paring symmetry of a Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ superconductor has been still unclear. In this Rapid Communication, motivated by the recent rapid progress in fabrication techniques for Sr$_2$RuO$_4$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-01 S. Ikegaya , K. Yada , Y. Tanaka , S. Kashiwaya , Y. Asano , D. Manske

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

Chiral crystals, whose key feature is the structural handedness, host exotic quantum phenomena driven by the interplay of band topology, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and electronic correlations. Due to the limited availability of suitable…

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

Ferromagnetism is most common in transition metal compounds but may also arise in low-density two-dimensional electron systems, with signatures observed in silicon, III-V semiconductor systems, and graphene moir\'e heterostructures. Here we…

Spin-triplet chiral p-wave superconductivity is typically described by a two-component order parameter, and as such is prone to unique emergent effects when compared to the standard single-component superconductors. Here we present the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-03 L. -F. Zhang , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević

An out-of-plane magnetic field can always suppress superconductivity. In Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG), recently observed activation of superconductivity (SC) through either in-plane magnetic fields or proximate spin-orbit coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-10 Jun Ho Son , Yi-Ting Hsu , Eun-Ah Kim

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