Graphene bilayers with a twist

EY Andrei, AH MacDonald - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid
to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are …

Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light

Y Shen, Q Zhang, P Shi, L Du, X Yuan, AV Zayats - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and
demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics and magnetic materials, but only …

Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene

H Kim, Y Choi, C Lewandowski, A Thomson, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) has emerged as a moiré material that
exhibits strong electronic correlations and unconventional superconductivity,. However …

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene as a topological heavy fermion problem

ZD Song, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Magic-angle (θ= 1.0 5°) twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has shown two seemingly
contradictory characters: the localization and quantum-dot-like behavior in STM …

Evidence for unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

M Oh, KP Nuckolls, D Wong, RL Lee, X Liu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The emergence of superconductivity and correlated insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer
graphene (MATBG) has raised the intriguing possibility that its pairing mechanism is distinct …

Tunable strongly coupled superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene

JM Park, Y Cao, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices, have recently emerged as a platform upon which correlated physics and
superconductivity can be studied with unprecedented tunability,,–. Although correlated …

Evidence for Dirac flat band superconductivity enabled by quantum geometry

H Tian, X Gao, Y Zhang, S Che, T Xu, P Cheung… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In a flat band superconductor, the charge carriers' group velocity v F is extremely slow.
Superconductivity therein is particularly intriguing, being related to the long-standing …

Electric field–tunable superconductivity in alternating-twist magic-angle trilayer graphene

Z Hao, AM Zimmerman, P Ledwith, E Khalaf… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Engineering moiré superlattices by twisting layers in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures
has uncovered a wide array of quantum phenomena. We constructed a vdW heterostructure …

Quantum textures of the many-body wavefunctions in magic-angle graphene

KP Nuckolls, RL Lee, M Oh, D Wong, T Soejima… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Interactions among electrons create novel many-body quantum phases of matter with
wavefunctions that reflect electronic correlation effects, broken symmetries and collective …

Superconductivity and strong interactions in a tunable moiré quasicrystal

A Uri, SC de la Barrera, MT Randeria… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Electronic states in quasicrystals generally preclude a Bloch description, rendering them
fascinating and enigmatic. Owing to their complexity and scarcity, quasicrystals are …