Nematicity and competing orders in superconducting magic-angle graphene-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Nematicity and competing orders in superconducting magic-angle graphene

Published:2021-04-16 Issue:6539 Volume:372 Page:264-271
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Cao Yuan¹^ORCID,Rodan-Legrain Daniel¹^ORCID,Park Jeong Min¹^ORCID,Yuan Noah F. Q.¹^ORCID,Watanabe Kenji²^ORCID,Taniguchi Takashi³^ORCID,Fernandes Rafael M.⁴^ORCID,Fu Liang¹^ORCID,Jarillo-Herrero Pablo¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

2. Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.

3. International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.

4. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

Abstract

Twisted and nematic Electrons in quantum materials can break rotational symmetry even when the underlying crystal lattice does not. This phenomenon, called nematicity, has been observed in many unconventional superconductors. Cao et al. found that magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, in which superconductivity was recently discovered, also exhibits nematicity. The breaking of rotational symmetry was observed through transport measurements, which exhibited characteristic anisotropy. Science , this issue p. 264

Funder

National Science Foundation

U.S. Department of Energy

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University

British Ecological Society

Army Research Office

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology

Debreceni Egyetem

Université de Sfax

Fundaci Bancaria la Caixa