Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Material Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
Science. 2021 Mar 12;371(6534):1133-1138. doi: 10.1126/science.abg0399. Epub 2021 Feb 4.
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 that consists of three graphene layers stacked with alternating twist angles ±θ. At the average twist angle θ ~ 1.56°, a theoretically predicted "magic angle" for the formation of flat electron bands, we observed displacement field-tunable superconductivity with a maximum critical temperature of 2.1 kelvin. By tuning the doping level and displacement field, we found that superconducting regimes occur in conjunction with flavor polarization of moiré bands and are bounded by a van Hove singularity (vHS) at high displacement fields. Our findings display inconsistencies with a weak coupling description, suggesting that the observed moiré superconductivity has an unconventional nature.
通过扭曲范德华(vdW)异质结构中的层来构建莫尔超晶格,揭示了广泛的量子现象。我们构建了一个由三层堆叠的石墨烯组成的 vdW 异质结构,其扭转角交替为±θ。在平均扭转角θ~1.56°,这是形成平带电子的理论预测的“魔术角度”,我们观察到位移场可调的超导性,最大临界温度为 2.1 开尔文。通过调节掺杂水平和位移场,我们发现超导态与莫尔带的各向异性极化同时出现,并在高位移场下被范霍夫奇点(vHS)限制。我们的发现与弱耦合描述不一致,表明观察到的莫尔超导具有非传统的性质。