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Rhombohedral graphene systems with different number of layers feature an abundance of correlated phases and superconducting states in experimental measurements with different doping and displacement fields. Some of the superconducting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-05 Guillermo Parra-Martínez , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Jose Angel Silva-Guillén , Francisco Guinea

Electrical control of magnetism has been a major techonogical pursuit of the spintronics community, owing to its far-reaching implications for data storage and transmission. Here, we propose and analyze a new mechanism for electrical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 Taige Wang , Marc Vila , Michael P. Zaletel , Shubhayu Chatterjee

Low-dimensional electronic systems have traditionally been obtained by electrostatically confining electrons, either in heterostructures or in intrinsically nanoscale materials such as single molecules, nanowires, and graphene. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 A. F. Young , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , B. Hunt , S. H. Choi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Superconductors (SCs) with nontrivial topological band structures in the normal state have been discovered recently in bulk materials. When such SCs are made into thin films, quantum tunneling and Cooper pairing take place between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-19 Xi Luo , Yu-Ge Chen , Ziqiang Wang , Yue Yu

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 highly unconventional superconducting state with a spin-singlet $d_{x^2-y^2}\pm id_{xy}$-wave, or chiral d-wave, symmetry has recently been proposed to emerge from electron-electron interactions in doped graphene. Especially graphene…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-08 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Carsten Honerkamp

In the last 43 years several hints were reported suggesting the existence of granular superconductivity above room temperature in different graphite-based systems. In this paper some of the results are reviewed, giving special attention to…

Motivated by the recent discoveries of superconductivity in bilayer and trilayer graphene, we theoretically investigate superconductivity and other interaction-driven phases in multilayer graphene stacks. To this end, we study the density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-06 Areg Ghazaryan , Tobias Holder , Erez Berg , Maksym Serbyn

In contrast to conventional Weyl semimetals in achiral crystals, chiral topological semimetals in chiral crystals exhibit Weyl nodes at time-reversal-invariant momenta. A Fermi surface spin texture with parallel spin-momentum locking in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Yingyi Huang

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene displays the occurrence of a magnetic surface state at low temperatures. Recent angular resolved photoemission experiments demonstrate the robustness of the magnetic state in long sequences of ABC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Jacopo Baima , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductors are exotic phases of matter with fascinating properties, which are, however, encountered rather sparsely. Here we identify the possibility of realizing such a superconducting ground state that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

In strongly correlated electronic systems, Coulomb interactions frequently manifest through emergent electronic orders that spontaneously break rotational symmetry. Understanding how such symmetry breaking intertwines with other collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Peiyu Qin , Hai-Tian Wu , Ron Q. Nguyen , Erin Morissette , Naiyuan J. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. I. A. Li

Two-dimensional topological superconductor (TSC) represents an exotic quantum material with quasiparticle excitation manifesting in dispersive Majorana mode (DMM) at the boundaries. A domain-wall DMM can arise at the boundary between two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-26 Xiaoming Zhang , Pei Zhao , Feng Liu

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene (RMG) offers a highly tunable platform for correlated electron physics, featuring field-effect control of magnetic, superconducting, and topological phases[1-24]. The promise of these materials has been held…

Twisted multilayer moir\'e materials are generically quasiperiodic on the moir\'e scale due to the interference of different misaligned moir\'e periodicities. Spatial inhomogeneities such as these can be detrimental to superconductivity;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinghai Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene is an ideal platform to search for correlated electron phenomena, due to its pair of flat bands touching at zero energy and further tunability by an electric field. Furthermore, its valley-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Giovanni Scuri , Jiho Sung , Jue Wang , Tianyi Han , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hongkun Park , Long Ju

We propose to realize a two-dimensional chiral topological superconducting (TSC) state from the quantum anomalous Hall plateau transition in a magnetic topological insulator thin film through the proximity effect to a conventional $s$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Jing Wang , Quan Zhou , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Recent measurements of the resistivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene near the superconducting transition temperature show two-fold anisotropy, or nematicity, when changing the direction of an in-plane magnetic field [Cao…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-22 Tao Yu , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio , Michael A. Sentef

Chiral superconductors have long been theorized to break time-reversal symmetry and support exotic topological features such as Majorana modes and spontaneous edge currents, promising ingredients for quantum technologies. Although several…