凝聚态物理
超导电性
双层石墨烯
物理
石墨烯
材料科学
相干长度
磁场
相(物质)
魔法角
超晶格
准粒子
作者
Jeong Min Park,Yuan Cao,Kenji Watanabe,Takashi Taniguchi,Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
出处
期刊:Nature
[Nature Portfolio]
日期:2021-02-11
卷期号:590 (7845): 249-255
被引量:183
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03192-0
摘要
Moir\'e superlattices have recently emerged as a novel platform where correlated physics and superconductivity can be studied with unprecedented tunability. Although correlated effects have been observed in several other moir\'e systems, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) remains the only one where robust superconductivity has been reproducibly measured. Here we realize a new moir\'e superconductor, mirror symmetric magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) with dramatically richer tunability in electronic structure and superconducting properties. Hall effect and quantum oscillations measurements as a function of density and electric field allow us to determine the system's tunable phase boundaries in the normal state. Zero magnetic field resistivity measurements then reveal that the existence of superconductivity is intimately connected to the broken symmetry phase emerging from two carriers per moir\'e unit cell. Strikingly, we find that the superconducting phase gets suppressed and bounded at the van Hove singularities (vHs) partially surrounding the broken-symmetry phase, which is difficult to reconcile with weak-coupling BCS theory. Moreover, the extensive in situ tunability of our system allows us to achieve the ultra-strong coupling regime, characterized by a Ginzburg-Landau coherence length reaching the average inter-particle distance and very large $T_\mathrm{BKT}/T_{F}$ ratios in excess of 0.1, where $T_\mathrm{BKT}$ and $T_F$ are the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and Fermi temperatures, respectively. These observations suggest that MATTG can be electrically tuned close to the two-dimensional BCS-BEC crossover. Our results establish a new generation of tunable moir\'e superconductors with the potential to revolutionize our fundamental understanding and the applications of strong coupling superconductivity.
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