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Zeyu Hao1, A M Zimmerman1, Patrick Ledwith1, Eslam Khalaf1, Danial Haie Najafabadi1, Kenji Watanabe2, Takashi Taniguchi3, Ashvin Vishwanath1, Philip Kim4.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Year: 2021 PMID: 33542148 DOI: 10.1126/science.abg0399
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728