Flat bands, strange metals and the Kondo effect

JG Checkelsky, BA Bernevig, P Coleman, Q Si… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Flat-band materials such as the kagome metals or moiré superlattices are of intense current
interest. Flat bands can result from the electron motion on numerous (special) lattices and …

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity between twisted cuprate superconductors

SYF Zhao, X Cui, PA Volkov, H Yoo, S Lee… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Twisted interfaces between stacked van der Waals (vdW) cuprate crystals present a platform
for engineering superconducting order parameters by adjusting stacking angles. Using a …

Topological and stacked flat bands in bilayer graphene with a superlattice potential

SAA Ghorashi, A Dunbrack, A Abouelkomsan, J Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We show that bilayer graphene in the presence of a 2D superlattice potential provides a
highly tunable setup that can realize a variety of flat band phenomena. We focus on two …

Twisted cuprate van der Waals heterostructures with controlled Josephson coupling

M Martini, Y Lee, T Confalone, S Shokri, CN Saggau… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Twisted van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures offer a unique platform for engineering the
efficient Josephson coupling between cuprate thin crystals harboring the nodal …

Current-and field-induced topology in twisted nodal superconductors

PA Volkov, JH Wilson, KP Lucht, JH Pixley - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We show that interlayer current induces topological superconductivity in twisted bilayers of
nodal superconductors. A bulk gap opens and achieves its maximum near a “magic” twist …

High-temperature Majorana zero modes

A Mercado, S Sahoo, M Franz - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We employ analytical and numerical approaches to show that unpaired Majorana zero
modes can occur in cores of Abrikosov vortices at the interface between a three-dimensional …

Symmetries as the guiding principle for flattening bands of Dirac fermions

Y Sheffer, R Queiroz, A Stern - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Since the discovery of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, flat bands in Dirac materials
have become a prominent platform for realizing strong correlation effects in electronic …

Inhomogeneity-induced time-reversal symmetry breaking in cuprate twist junctions

AC Yuan, Y Vituri, E Berg, B Spivak, SA Kivelson - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The lowest-order Josephson coupling, J 1 (θ) cos (ϕ), between two d-wave superconductors
with a phase difference ϕ across the junction vanishes when their relative orientation is …

[HTML][HTML] Unconventional self-similar Hofstadter superconductivity from repulsive interactions

D Shaffer, J Wang, LH Santos - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Fractal Hofstadter bands have become widely accessible with the advent of moiré
superlattices, opening the door to studies of the effect of interactions in these systems. In this …

Multilayer graphene with a superlattice potential

SAA Ghorashi, J Cano - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Bernal stacked bilayer graphene subject to a superlattice potential can realize topological
and stacked flat bands [Ghorashi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196201 (2023) …