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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Qin, Wei
• MacDonald, Allan H.

Titel

In-Plane Critical Magnetic Fields in Magic-Angle Twisted Trilayer Graphene

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2021-08, Vol.127 (9), p.097001-097001, Article 097001

Ort / Verlag

College Park: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It has recently been shown [Y. Cao, J. M. Park, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and P. Jarillo-Herrero, Pauli-limit violation and re-entrant superconductivity in moiré graphene, Nature (London) 595, 526 (2021).] that superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene survives to in-plane magnetic fields that are well in excess of the Pauli limit, and much stronger than the in-plane critical magnetic fields of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. The difference is surprising because twisted bilayers and trilayers both support the magic-angle flat bands thought to be the fountainhead of twisted graphene superconductivity. We show here that the difference in critical magnetic fields can be traced to a C2Mh symmetry in trilayers that survives in-plane magnetic fields, and also relative displacements between top and bottom layers that are not under experimental control at present. An gate electric field breaks the C2Mh symmetry and therefore limits the in-plane critical magnetic field.